Premiere: Weyes Blood – “Romneydale”.
April 20, 2011, 2 comments
It took quite a while, but now LA imprint Not Not Fun finally dropped the first proper full-length by Weyes Blood aka Natalie Mering (the sister of Raw Thrills/Greatest Hits/Gunk TV CEO/etc. and NFOP regular Zak Mering). Stylistically pretty uncommon for the label’s roster, which is “part of what I love about it”, in the words of NNF’s Britt Brown, The Outside Room is a collection of noise-laden haunted folk, spellbinding in its beautiful fragility, perfectly excemplified by the seven and a half minute masterpiece Romneydale, a song that subtly builds up tension only with a single acoustic guitar and multiple layers of Natalie’s amazingly deep, clear voice, before it collapses into a cloudy cacophony of bells that’s evocative of the artist’s past explorations in less harmonic drone. A brilliant, a gorgeous debut.
Edition of 480. Order your copy here.
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