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About this product
Product Identifiers
Record LabelSub Pop, Sub
UPC0098787148534
eBay Product ID (ePID)13071183251
Product Key Features
Release Year2022
FormatRecord
GenreRock
ArtistWeyes Blood
Release TitleAnd in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow
Dimensions
Item Height0.20 in
Item Weight0.73 lb
Item Length12.39 in
Item Width12.36 in
Additional Product Features
Number of Tracks10
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Tracks1.1 It's Not Just Me, It's Everybody 1.2 Children of the Empire 1.3 Grapevine 1.4 God Turn Me Into a Flower 1.5 Hearts Aglow 1.6 And in the Darkness 1.7 Twin Flame 1.8 In Holy Flux 1.9 The Worst Is Done 1.10 A Given Thing
Number of Discs1
NotesTechnological agitation. Narcissism fatigue. A galaxy of isolation. These are the new norms keeping Weyes Blood (aka Natalie Mering) up at night and the themes at the heart of her latest release, And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow. The celestial-influenced folk album is her follow-up to the acclaimed Titanic Rising. (Pitchfork, NPR, and The Guardian admiringly named it one of 2019's best.) While Titanic Rising was an observation of doom to come, And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow is about being in the thick of it: a search for an escape hatch to liberate us from algorithms and ideological chaos. "We're in a fully functional shit show," Mering says. "My heart is a glow stick that's been cracked, lighting up my chest in an explosion of earnestness." And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow opens with the wistful, winsome "It's Not Just Me, It's Everybody," a song about the interconnectivity of all beings, despite the fraying of society around us. "I was asking a lot of questions while writing these songs. Hyper-isolation kept coming up," Mering says. "Our culture relies less and less on people. Something is off, and even though the feeling appears differently for each individual, it is universal." Other tracks follow in kind. The lullaby-like "Grapevine" chronicles the splintering of a human connection. The otherworldly dirge "God Turn Me into a Flower" serves as allegory about our collective hubris. "The Worst Is Done" is an ominous warning, set against a deceivingly breezy pop melody. "Chaos is natural. But so is negentropy, or the tendency for things to fall into order," she says. "These songs may not be manifestos or solutions, but I know they shed light on the meaning of our contemporary disillusionment."