And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow
Lush, cinematic chamber pop that feels like 1970s AM radio playing at the bottom of the ocean. Grand orchestral arrangements meet deep, existential intimacy.
Lush, cinematic chamber pop that feels like 1970s AM radio playing at the bottom of the ocean. Grand orchestral arrangements meet deep, existential intimacy.
Trilogy centerpiece
Heavy organ chords and glowing chimes drift through these songs like light filtering through deep water. It feels like finding a warm, working radio inside a shipwreck. You are wrapped in plush seventies strings and a velvet voice, slow-dancing through the quiet anxiety of a world gently falling apart.
Late Night saturates this record notably more than the artist's norm.
Critics widely praised the album's richly textured orchestration and graceful melodies, admiring how the songwriting balances a gentle, hopeful optimism with the anxieties of modern isolation. This elegant blend of secular hymns and subtle humor was warmly received as a comforting, soulful journey through destabilized times.
“Perhaps her grandest, most elegant work to date—a perfect culmination of her past experimentalism and deep devotion to graceful melodies that lift from the deepest parts of the soul up to the heavens”Read review
“Though And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow frequently harks back to Americana and folk forms, Mering injects the album’s 10 songs with contemporary flourishes”Read review
“Natalie Mering’s majestic fifth record is a dispatch from the center of catastrophe—an idiosyncratic set of love songs and secular hymns with lushly orchestral arrangements”Read review
“Natalie Mering’s fifth album is a compelling and beautifully told tale of coming out of the darkness”Read review
“LA-based artist Natalie Mering cuts through this strange and isolating period of history with a subtle touch, carefully unearthing a scrap of hope in the process”Read review
“Natalie Mering’s follow-up to the superb Titanic Rising sets 21st-century pessimism to one fantastic tune after another – and gently suggests this all may be deadpan humour”Read review
“Beautiful baroque-pop songs, elegantly arranged and patiently delivered, with her compelling alto voice front and center”Read review
“A beguiling blend of nostalgia and optimism”Read review
“A beautifully wrought pop record that grapples with the disquiet hanging over the globe”Read review
“Another step forward for Weyes Blood, building on the stunning sonic and emotional environments she tailored on Titanic Rising and using that lushness as a means of processing destabilized times”Read review
“Magnificently composed, Weyes Blood reaches out to cast your loneliness away”Read review
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