Weyes Blood – Titanic Rising

Weyes Blood – Titanic Rising is the Sub Pop full-length from Natalie Mering that arrived with genuine critical weight behind it, co-produced by Jonathan Rado of Foxygen and representing the clearest, most fully realized statement of her career to date.

About Weyes Blood

Natalie Mering has built her reputation slowly and deliberately, working at the edges of the Los Angeles experimental and folk underground before her profile began to widen through a series of notable collaborations and tours. She has appeared on recordings with Father John Misty, Perfume Genius, Drugdealer, and Ariel Pink, and spent time on the road with Father John Misty in 2017. Those associations tell you something about where she sits: artists who take songwriting seriously, who care about arrangements, who are not chasing trends. Mering operates in that same space, bringing a voice and a compositional sensibility that stands apart from most of what is currently being made.

Weyes Blood – Titanic Rising on Sub Pop

The pairing with Jonathan Rado as co-producer is worth paying attention to. Rado has an ear for lush, layered production that serves a song rather than overwhelming it, and that sensibility fits Mering’s writing well. The result on this LP is a record that sounds expensive in the best sense: careful, considered, and built to hold up across repeated listens. Sub Pop pressed this as catalog number SP 1232, and the label context matters. Sub Pop has a long track record of pressing records that reward collectors, and this one fits that pattern.

Why This Pressing

For collectors, this is a straightforward Sub Pop LP pressing of a record that has consistently held collector interest since its release. The Sub Pop catalog tends to be well-mastered and properly manufactured, and SP 1232 is no exception. If you have been following Mering’s trajectory through her earlier work or through her appearances alongside some of the more interesting artists working in adjacent spaces, this is the record where everything she had been building toward comes into focus. It belongs on the shelf next to the records that informed it, and it sounds the part on vinyl.