Stream: Weyes Blood, ‘It’s Not Just Me, It’s Everybody’

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Weyes Blood (Photo by Neil Krug)

“We’re in a fully functional shit show. My heart is a glow stick that’s been cracked, lighting up my chest in an explosion of earnestness.”

So sayeth Natalie Mering, aka Weyes Blood, in announcing her new album, “And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow” (out Nov. 18 via Sub Pop) and backing up the earnest part with the album’s lead track, “It’s Not Just Me, It’s Everybody.”

“Living in the wake / of overwhelming changes / we’ve all become strangers / even to ourselves,” she sings serenely — not an uncommon observation among songwriters who actually care to observe, but in Mering’s voice and with Jonathan Rado’s co-production, uncommonly aglow.

Meg Duffy, Daniel Lopatin and Mary Lattimore appear on the album, Weyes Blood’s fifth and the follow-up to 2019’s “Titanic Rising” — which, it turns out, was the first of a trilogy. (Apologies if we missed that bit of context in 2019, not that it would have lessened the impact.)  “Titanic’s” sense of foreboding has now given way to chaos, with its technology-fueled unease, narcissism and isolation. (All of which Mering expands upon in the letter below.)

For now, take comfort in the notion that it’s not just you.

||| Stream: “It’s Not Just Me, It’s Everybody”

||| Live: Weyes Blood headlines the Theatre at Ace Hotel on Dec. 8 (tickets) and Dec. 9 (tickets on sale Friday).

||| Previously: Favorite albums of 2019, Live at the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever, “Everyday,” “Andromeda,” favorite albums of 2016, live at the Echo, “Used to Be,” “Do You Need My Love”