Weyes Blood – The Innocents - 2014 Indie Folk Rock - Black Vinyl - Sealed LP
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23332
CA$49.95
Weyes Blood - The Innocents
Label: Mexican Summer – MEX186
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress
Unnumbered edition. Does not include a poster.
Includes a custom inner sleeve.
Outer sleeve has some spot varnish.
Sticker: Download card - High quality virgin vinyl
Ⓒ & Ⓟ 2014 Kemado Records, Inc., d/b/a Mexican Summer. 87 Guernsey Street, Brooklyn, NY 11222.
The Innocents was recorded [...] at Where the Woodbine Twineth, 24/7 Cherry, Gary's Electric and The Apt on Montrose.
Mastered [...] at Peerless.
Barcode (Stickered): 184923118612Country: US
Released: 2015
Genre: Rock, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk, Indie Rock
A1 Land Of Broken Dreams
4:31
A2 Hang On
3:45
A3 Some Winters
6:15
A4 Summer
2:47
A5 Requiem For Forgiveness
4:29
B1 Ashes
5:27
B2 Bad Magic
5:55
B3 February Skies
4:45
B4 Montrose
2:58
B5 Bound To Earth 3:39
''The Innocents (which is presumably a reference to the 1961 film adaptation of Henry James’ "The Turn of the Screw"). The album plays like a picaresque of the Lower 48, as Mering collects sounds and ideas along her journey and pieces them together into an album that has considerable scope yet is rooted in the personal. Drawing from Donovan and Joan Baez as well as Mark Linkous and Sonic Youth, Mering blends the idylls of folk ballads and madrigals with the sonic abrasiveness of noise rock. Most of the songs feature just guitar and Mering’s rich soprano, but on several tracks she manipulates the instruments to suggest music that is curdling, fading, transforming, evolving right before our ears. Even the simplest and loveliest tunes, such as “Requiem for Forgiveness” or closer “Bound to Earth”, sound like they might be interrupted at any moment by waves of distortion.
To indulge another literary reference, the center will not hold. Things fall apart. There is no solid ground on The Innocents. The album opens with explosions in the distance, a rhythm of destruction that portends something darkly ominous. Borrowing not just the music but also the topicality of '60s folk, “Land of Broken Dreams” conveys a sense of immense dread as Mering sings about an America in fantastical disrepair—in particular, the growing rift between what the country should be and what it actually is. “Stand by to believe in the land of the free, whatever you want it to be,” she sings, and it’s impossible to determine just how much irony is packed into that line. Are those explosions an echo of atomic testing in the 1950s, or perhaps of the bombs planted by radical activists in the 1970s?'' (Pitchfork)
| Condition | New |
|---|---|
| Format | LP |
| Color | Black |
