Titanic Rising
A breathtaking blend of 1970s AM radio warmth and cinematic baroque pop, exploring modern existential dread through lush strings and a deep, resonant alto voice.
A breathtaking blend of 1970s AM radio warmth and cinematic baroque pop, exploring modern existential dread through lush strings and a deep, resonant alto voice.
Critical peak
Synthesizers swell like rising tides beneath a pristine, seventies-style AM radio warmth, anchoring a voice that sounds like it was recorded inside an empty cathedral. This record perfected the transition from bedroom folk to widescreen, cinematic pop, turning modern dread into something grand and orchestral. You can feel the cold water of the title’s sinking ship in the wet, dripping slide guitars and the heavy, slow-motion drift of the strings. It is the exact point where cosmic loneliness became lush, communal, and strangely comforting, wrapping massive, terrifying questions about the future in the sweetest, most familiar melodies imaginable.
The record submerges its existential dread in a distinct underwater atmosphere, wrapping the songs in a weightless, aquatic shimmer that feels entirely new to her sonic universe.
Critics warmly praised the album's rich melodies and purposeful direction, which seamlessly blend vintage pop with undercurrents of subtle, eerie surrealism. Reviewers broadly admired how the songwriting pairs ambitious, sentimental themes with a composed and imaginative musicality.
“Weyes Blood (a.k.a. Natalie Mering) conjures up a beautiful, cinematic world through with her insightful songwriting on Titanic Rising”Read review
“The Summer of Love ended in bloodshed and, on her fourth album, it’s as though Natalie Mering is looking back at the seemingly idyllic era through a smeared prism”Read review
“While the overall tone is soothing, the ambition and sense of gentle foreboding never lull you into complacent reverie.”Read review
“Natalie Mering’s blissful vintage pop trip has freakouts lurking just out of frame”Read review
“‘Titanic Rising’ harnesses convention and refashions it into something singular. At once a document of this “wild time to be alive” and an escape from it, it’s often remarkably good”Read review
“A grand, sentimental ode to living and loving in the shadow of doom. It is her most ambitious and complex work yet”Read review
“Titanic Rising may draw inspiration from the past, but it’s ultimately a clear-eyed look at love, catastrophe and hope that’s perfect for the present moment”Read review
“A perfectly balanced synthesis between the old and familiar and the new and unexplored”Read review
“The artist, whose real name is Natalie Mering, accompanies her instrumental idiosyncrasies with strong, luscious melodies and unfussy lyrics”Read review
“Tightly structured, lavishly orchestrated, brilliantly realised”Read review
“Fantastic songs, meticulously detailed production, and a certain, hard-to-name spark of connection all gel into the near-perfect statement that every part of Mering’s strange journey before this led up to”Read review
“Titanic Rising is all the stronger for wringing out casual surrealism in less flashy ways. The chiming piano notes between lines on “Wild Time” summon an eerie calm, while the manic peppiness of “Everyday” climaxes into crashing guitars, pianos, and drums by the song’s end”
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