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The WireJun 20, 2019In emotional terms Titanic Rising is immense – names like Annette Peacock, Linda Perhacs and Judee Sill come to mind, but only because it feels like so long since you’ve heard pop this epic yet unmannered. ... With tracks like the stunning “Something To Believe” lodging themselves into your heart with the sure knowledge that your relationship with this music will only deepen as the year unfolds. [Jul 2019, p.52]
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May 8, 2019Titanic Rising is even more accomplished than putting Mering’s state of grace to music; with her 70s-inflected approach to songwriting, she succeeds in nothing less than recalibrating time.
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Apr 30, 2019A strong contender for album of the year. ... Titanic Rising is remarkable for its breadth, effortlessly shifting from the 90-second ambient wash of the title track to Picture Me Better’s homespun take on the cosmic cowboyisms of Kacey Musgraves. Then there are Merings’ lyrics, evincing a similar shift in scale and scope.
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Apr 16, 2019To genuinely appreciate this album, you need to sit with it and let it wash over you.
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Apr 11, 2019Titanic Rising is a leap forward for the self-described “nostalgic futurist,” yet Mering’s core musical gifts remain intact. Her voice holds you like a steady flashlight beam in a meadow fog.
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Q MagazineApr 10, 2019Beautiful stuff. [Jun 2019, p.116]
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Apr 8, 2019Despite Mering's sonic flights of fancy, Titanic Rising is a lean, 40-minute recording that carefully considers her performative sentiments with fine craftsmanship. No emotions go astray.
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Apr 8, 2019Titanic Rising presents an immensely elegant journey to a different place and time; in equal parts beautifully delicate and powerful.
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Apr 8, 2019It’s big, ambitious and beautiful, by far the best record Weyes Blood has made and also happens to be one of the best records of the year.
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Apr 8, 2019An ambitious, varied and ardently rewarding listen, Titanic Rising is pop music for ages and worlds far beyond our own, and an emphatic show of prowess from one who is sure to be one of indie’s new radiant lights.
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Apr 8, 2019Ultimately, it is Titanic Rising’s fusion of ancient and contemporary, 70s singer-songwriter tropes and electronic burbles, that convinces; the beauty Weyes Blood offers has its eyes wide open.
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Apr 5, 2019Titanic Rising is a new peak for a rapidly maturing and utterly distinctive artist.
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Apr 5, 2019It’s a strangely addictive mix, comfort-food nostalgia that telegraphs knowingness without sarcasm, parody or airquotes.
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Apr 5, 2019Rado’s opulent production gives the experience of listening to Titanic Rising—particularly on headphones—the feeling of being enveloped in sound, insulated from the outside world like an astronaut looking down at the earth through layers of atmosphere. The lyrics on Titanic Rising certainly contribute to the album’s daydream quality.
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Apr 5, 2019Building on the psychedelic chamber-folk of 2016’s Front Row Seat to Earth, these convictions push the 30-year-old songwriter towards her most ambitious and complex work yet.
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Apr 4, 2019While all of Weyes Blood's albums leading up to Titanic Rising were good, even great, there's something that sets this one apart. 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.
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Apr 4, 2019This is a beautiful album, informed as much her bold experimental music as by her golden age pop forebears. The record ends where it began, but Natalie Mering continues to push tirelessly and boldly ahead.
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Apr 4, 2019Titanic Rising isn’t Bob Seger meets Enya. It’s better.
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Apr 4, 2019Titanic 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.
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Apr 3, 2019Titanic Rising doesn’t feel blissfully adrift. Instead, it feels like Mering knows exactly where she’s going.
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Apr 2, 2019Titanic 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.
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Apr 1, 2019Mixing warm, New Age-suggestive electronic tones with conversational, heart-to-heart lyrics meant to stick on first listen, her work floats through space with a glistening, emotionally rich shimmer.
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MojoApr 1, 2019Titanic Rising is a revelation. These opulent, sculptural songs have sacrificed none of Mering's idiosyncrasy, or ability to unnerve. [May 2019, p.87]
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UncutApr 1, 2019Tightly structured, lavishly orchestrated, brilliantly realised. [May 2019, p.18]
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Apr 1, 2019Titanic Rising is a new thing, her own stamp on the world. Like all the best musicians and songwriters before her, she’s plumbed the depths of her imagination and brought forth a masterpiece from the depths.
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Apr 1, 2019On Weyes Blood's radiant and beautifully anachronistic fourth studio album, Titanic Rising, Natalie Mering achieves a perfectly balanced synthesis between the old and familiar and the new and unexplored.
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 442 out of 474
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Mixed: 9 out of 474
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Negative: 23 out of 474
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Apr 5, 2019
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Jun 8, 2019
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Apr 5, 2019Sublime orchestration and Natalie's voice layerings make this a complete cinematic experience.