Best New Tracks - Pitchfork: Hear Weyes Blood’s Lovesick Psychedelia on “Seven Words” |  |
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Posted: 13 Aug 2016 09:00 AM PDT
Over the last decade, Natalie Mering's music under the Weyes Blood moniker has evolved gracefully from lo-fi mood-pieces to minimalist folk ballads. On "Seven Words," though, she conjures a kaleidoscopic vision of the 1970s' best kept secrets. Over a slow-building foundation of subtle, psychedelic keyboards and muted slide guitars, Mering's vocals are as precise and effortless as ever, conveying a sad desperation. The first taste from her upcoming album Front Row Seat to Earth, "Seven Words" is an ode to communication: an elegy for words left unsaid at the end of a relationship. Each verse plays like a love letter never sent, sung with increasing urgency as the memories fade and the future becomes clearer. "I want you mostly in the morning," she sings, "When my soul is weak from dreaming." By the time the song reaches its conclusion, with a Judee Sill-invoking choir of layered harmonies, Mering has transported the listener to that same pre-verbal, lovesick mindset.
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