Weyes Blood

Natalie Mering’s songs have a gauzy sheen of casual, sunsoaked romance, like a faded photo from the 70s; old pianos and moody horns create a halo around a rich, lissom voice. Mering’s work as Weyes Blood has been compared to Judee Sill and Nick Drake, and latest album Front Row Seat To Earth. It feels as intimate and as expansive as the title suggests and sees her luxuriating in Laurel Canyon hippie textures. But as her history of collaboration with experimental artists like Ariel Pink and Jackie-O Motherfucker suggests, there is a modern weirdness in her love of lived-in sounds.