Weyes Blood - And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow (Purple Vinyl Loser Edition)

Technological agitation. Narcissism fatigue. A galaxy of isolation.These are the new norms keeping Weyes Blood (aka NatalieMering) up at night and the themes at the heart of her latestrelease, And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow.The celestial-influenced folk album is her follow-up to theacclaimed Titanic Rising. (Pitchfork, NPR, and The Guardianadmiringly named it one of 2019’s best.) While Titanic Rising wasan observation of doom to come, And in the Darkness, HeartsAglow is about being in the thick of it: a search for an escapehatch to liberate us from algorithms and ideological chaos.“We’re in a fully functional shit show,” Mering says. “My heart is aglow stick that’s been cracked, lighting up my chest in anexplosion of earnestness.”And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow opens with the wistful,winsome “It's Not Just Me, It's Everybody,” a song about theinterconnectivity of all beings, despite the fraying of societyaround us. “I was asking a lot of questions while writing thesesongs. Hyper-i