It’s beautiful, unsettling and wholly compelling.
She commits more fully to the world she’s building here, though 2014’s sprawling rock rumination The Innocents is not without its highlights.
Mering wrings out so much emotion from her voice that these songs burst with human vitality – and that is the main thing to take away from here.
Front Row Seat to Earth ... turns down some of the lonely static and tape warp of previous full length The Innocents and finds a broader folk balladry imbued with Laurel Canyon breeze that’s still tempered by contemporary turmoil.
Front Row Seat to Earth might not be the most immediate record released this year, but it never turns its back on you. Accessible without ever being simple, it's one worth getting into, even if the way is labyrinthine.
Front Row Seat To Earth--intimate and enveloping, romantic and psychedelic--marks a significant progression in Mering's increasingly impressive career.
The lyrics are divine, and when it’s good (‘Seven Words’, ‘Do You Need My Love’) it is very, very good indeed.
To this date, February 15h, 2023, I have listened to 162 albums (I know its not that much) from several artists from different genres, and as of now I want to declare that Ms. Natalie Mering AKA Weyes Blood has become my favorite musician of all time. During my entire life, her music has been the most beautiful thing that has blessed my ears, she's just ridiculously good at doing this. Her singing, her lyrics, the production are just so good that I can't use words to describe them. I'm ... read more
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2 | Used to Be 4:32 | 91 |
3 | Be Free 6:22 | 88 |
4 | Do You Need My Love 6:25 | 93 |
5 | Generation Why 5:21 | 91 |
6 | Can't Go Home 4:40 | 83 |
7 | Seven Words 4:37 | 91 |
8 | Away Above 5:18 | 85 |
9 | Front Row Seat 1:55 | 83 |
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