Weyes Blood - Front Row Seat To Earth (Black Vinyl)

Weyes Blood - Front Row Seat To Earth (Black Vinyl)Weyes Blood's Front Row Seat to Earth is folk music of the near future. The closeness of Natalie Mering's third album conceals its aspirations to the outside, to the "Earth" of its title. Mering leads us through the microcosm of the personal to the macrocosm of the transpersonal. These are not typical love songs or protest songs of folk before; they are painful, poignant riddles that celebrate the ambiguity of love.

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the resulting eleven tracks came to represent a precognitive search for shifting identity and with it forming an unwittingly biographical record

oscillating vocals and unpredictable shifts in melody that see the band moving forward at an impressive pace

bratty and even a touch diabolical – and inspects it through the form of a conversation with her younger self

and it makes for a captivating

building on the promise and fire of the band's earlier singles

it brought the woman who records under the name M

and Dance music

Tame Impala and Soccer Mommy

balls-to-the-wall chorus

indie-rock smarts of a band like Versus

The result is a record that proves that art can be pop and pop can challenge you to look inside yourself