This, for me, is the perfect album to put on and just kinda let it ride out and take in the feeling of the music. Jeff J. I knooooow the story! But perhaps we shouldn’t be fooled by the touching, rousing mood Mering creates with this compositional virtuosity – the sheer lushness of this music constitutes Mering herself as an even greedier coal-miner of our immortalized 20th century cultural heritage. With James Cameron ... there is something stirring about seeing the ship rising from the depths. May 6, 2019 July 27, 2020 ~ Roberto Johnson. Production for profit is its prime directive and driving force. I love the song, but watching the video along with the music was the first time I heard it and it's still the experience I prefer to simply listening on the album. I’m less familiar with American history of the 1970s – my GCSE stopped in 1929 – but the first half of the decade had Watergate, continuing imperial bloodshed in Vietnam, CIA coups in Latin America. ... shows that coverage has collapsed amongst healthy young cohorts while rising among the ... Share on Twitter Share on Reddit +- I was obsessed with Andromeda from listen one. A Lot's Gonna Change 2. Weyes Blood has revealed “ Titanic Risen,” an outtake from 2019’s Titanic Rising, through the game Roblox. I didn’t think Movies was out of place, I see what you mean as it is aesthetically different some but I find it provides a nice turn into that darker corner you’re talking about, followed by a direct escape. I think having a transition track helps, but it's never stuck out to me beyond it being a marvelous centerpiece/climax. Especially Movies, my SOTY. On an aesthetic level, Titanic Rising just sounds convincing. The rising number of cases has pushed the Delhi government to shut the primary schools till March 31. can you imagine? Trivia: Father John Misty has said that Weyes Blood's voice sounds like his sped up to 45. ), Weyes Blood's Titanic Rising! Definitely love with way more too. If all the songs were as good as it, it would be up for album of the decade. Mering’s vocal melody emphasizes some more dissonant, chromatic harmonies, thick washes of strings and vocals glissando between chords achingly. Let’s use the example of “Everyday”, the album’s third track. Is originality not more important? Titanic Rising is an art pop album which draws liberally from the 70s, essentially adding another classic into the lush, melancholically orchestrated pop canon that we tend to assume reached its natural end once Kate Bush bought a Fairlight, Fleetwood Mac finished Tusk and Karen Carpenter passed away. The reasons why it was so imposing, so towering, so fascinating and impressive, were also the reasons why it was doomed, symbolically or materially. I really enjoyed this album on the first listen. Her latest release and her first on Sub Pop, Titanic Rising is her most accomplished work yet. But in the coming decades, these historic windfalls of abundant energy, constant growth, and rising profits will vanish. So for you to make such a strong connection between the two is definitely something I never would have done. It’s an achievement in transcendent vocals and levitating arrangements—one she could reach only by flying under the radar for so many years. TITANIC RISINGOut on Sub Pop April 5th - thrilled to finally unleash this behemoth in sound and emotion, conjured by myself with the help of many other wonderfuls in the sacred year of 2018. There was a whole episode dedicated to a fake Titanic sequel called Titanic Rising. Granted - it's still totally endearing and beautiful and honest as a song I love it...it's just that the video is so fucking well done. Streams: Spotify, Apple Music, Google Play. Titanic Rising, written and recorded during the first half of 2018, is the culmination of three albums and years of touring: stronger chops and ballsier decisions. For those indifferent, it’s just another album- just more music added to the wide, never-ending stream of people creating things. But for some reason, didn't think this when I listened to her last albums. Like the ship itself, Titanic Rising is a hulking dream filled with classical pomp, though its loneliness feels more cosmic and expansive than stuck at the bottom of the sea. WEYES BLOOD: No. In 2020, Mering sang lead on the song "Oh How We Drift Away" from comedian/actor/musician Tim Heidecker's Fear of Death album. Search the world's information, including webpages, images, videos and more. The title and album cover of Titanic Rising only adds to this mood of helpless maximalism. The digital game is based … Great write-up for my favorite pop album of the year. Maybe Esme can have a BF who is traveling on the ship with her. Titanic Rising isn’t Bob Seger meets Enya. Mering really shot the album cover in a big swimming pool decked out to look like a teenager’s bedroom. "Andromeda," the first single from her fourth LP, Titanic Rising, appeared in January 2019. Press J to jump to the feed. Google has many special features to help you find exactly what you're looking for. Any artist who draws as liberally as this from the 1970s is surely doing so with an implicit awareness of a sense of impasse, a recognition that the system before us has failed, coupled with a sense of terror at what’s lurking around the corner. REDDIT. Imagine a twilight Titanic au where Edward, Alice and Esme meet on broad the ship at the ages they would be in April 1912. The ship was built with groundbreaking safety features centred around compartments that could be remotely closed in the event of the hull being breached, leading many British newspapers to excitedly label the ship as “unsinkable”. The thing that I really enjoyed about this album is how Mering seems to be completely in-tune with finding the most satisfying possible through-line in each of her songs. The Los Angeles singer-songwriter explains how climate change, absurd comedy, and the Great American Songbook inspired her strangely uplifting new album, Titanic Rising. It’s an album so grand and beautiful that I audibly laughed out loud from sheer amazement a few times when I first listened to it. It’s often said that the winter and gloom of the 1970s was a kind of necessary penance for the countercultural excesses of the 1960s, but I’d argue that there’s a case for viewing the 70s as an uncanny island between two consensuses, the postwar social democracy which was beginning to disintegrate before people’s very eyes, and the beckoning free market tyranny of Thatcherite neoliberalism. While we’re waiting around, though, at least we can have connections as vivid and high-stakes as the ones depicted in, and created by, Titanic Rising. The climax of that song is one of the most powerful moments I've experienced in music this year. Instead, it feels like Mering knows exactly where she’s going. But what a remarkable retro-fit is has turned out to be - Titanic 3D is not only a solid conversion of 1997's 11 Oscar-winning show-piece of the ill-fated ocean liner, but a magnificent 3D film in its own right. ReddIt. This is one of those albums where the centerpiece i.e. James Cameron. Titanic Rising by Weyes Blood, released 05 April 2019 1. Lyrically, it deals with themes which seem to resonate with us alienated millennials and zoomers; the search for meaning in a world that doesn’t seem to care. This somehow showed the futility of everything, and in fact, the book was called Futility when it appeared that year, published by the firm of M. F. Mansfield. Robertson loaded his ship with rich and complacent people and then wrecked it one cold April night on an iceberg. I think it's cause it's similar to the soundtrack + the cover is similar to the Season 2 poster. “Born in a century lost to memories,” Mering sings after the first explosive chorus of that opening song. It’s the ennui of a world which is still enchanted, or where the possibility of enchantment and wide-eyed wonder is still very real. r/titanic: A sub for discussion of all things Titanic - the ship, the history, and of course, the numerous films. I wasn't crazy about the first half of the album when it released, since it's more straightforward 70's pop-rock, but it's obviously grown a lot on me since then. Press J to jump to the feed. “I saw the Emperor [Napoleon] – this world soul; it is indeed a wonderful feeling to see such a person who, concentrated here on a point, sitting on a horse, extends to the world and masters it.”, “The past keeps coming back because the present cannot be remembered.”, “A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets.”, -Rose DeWitt Bukater, Titanic (1997) dir. I got massive Carole King vibes. Something to Believe 5. The song was previously released as a Titanic Rising bonus track but only on Japanese editions of the album. Weyes Blood, the nom d’art of 30-year-old Natalie Mering, has yielded three album, not counting her self-released 2011 debut. Opening lines like “Andromeda’s a big, wide open galaxy” suggest a kind of escapism which is timeless, but moments of vulnerability like “treat me right, I’m still a good man’s daughter” sound strangely anachronistic, a reference to a kind of social fabric that I struggle to imagine my instinctively narcissistic generation of depressed artists incorporating into their hyperconfessional, more self-centred art. Isn’t Natalie Mering’s immaculate exhumation of the corpse of 70s art pop just another iteration of neoliberalism’s obsession with nostalgia, relitigating the cultural milestones of the past in order to divert our attention from the horrible transience of the present? Both could carry about 3,000 people, and both had enough lifeboats for only a fraction of this number. Still less do we expect the kind of ruptures brought about by The Beatles or disco. It’s better. He talks of the sinking of the Titanic as an inevitable historical event, a symbolic headstone to a departing age of prosperity, for which the fantasy space had already been opened in literature and art. You mention aesthetics, and while I am able to pick up on certain dark lyrics in quieter moments ("Picture Me Better"), I mainly find myself just enjoying the spectacle of this album. Titanic is a romantic anthology show written by Meg Jayanth, Lara Avery, Drew Karpyshyn, and Meghan Thornton which is based on James Cameron's 1997 film Titanic1. So, why the 1970s? Fourteen years later a British shipping company named the White Star Line built a steamer remarkably like the one in Robertson's novel. I knooooow the meaning! When a write-up starts with a 191-word paragraph on the background of the RMS Titanic, you know the subject probably means a lot to some people. It's my undisputable number 1 album of this year. Can be a little slow at times but the vocals are gorgeous and usually carry me along. Mirror Forever Lyrics: No one's ever gonna give you a trophy / For all the pain and the things you've been through / No one knows but you / Kinda crazy when you're looking right … In the meantime, discuss today's album and its write-up for it below! However, don’t sleep on her record before this, Front Row Seat to Earth, as it’s probably my retrospective favorite album of 2016 and honestly, my favorite of hers still even though this album is better in almost every way on a technical level. Titanic Rising is the fourth studio album by American musician Weyes Blood, released on April 5, 2019 by Sub Pop. A second single, "Everyday", was released along with an accompanying self-directed music video on … This was a great read. If you ask an older, more right-wing British person, the 1970s are synonymous with socialist decadence and malfunction: the three day week, trade union tyranny, nationalised trains breaking down and dying. The very latest chart stats about titanic rising - peak chart position, weeks on chart, week-by-week chart run, catalogue number Not shy of gambling big in studio dollars, Titanic 3D is rumoured to have cost upwards of $18 million to convert, with around 300 artists working round the clock for 60 weeks. There can be few who believe that in the coming year a record as great as, say, the Stooges’ Funhouse or Sly Stone’s There’s A Riot Goin’ On will be released. I never watched Homecoming. Wild Time is the climax of the record and the best song on there so not sure what this is about, New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. It’s not especially Christian – it could be fidelity to an Idea, to a Cause, if not necessarily a God. It must be her voice + style of music she's evolved to that is bringing this out. And "timelessness" is probably a nebulous concept considering what we think of as timeless is largely (though not completely) influenced by previous generations. Perhaps that’s the direction her next album will take? Everything Indie Music related; from the newest releases and news, to discussion on the history of alternative music. Her vocals on the opening track are just killer. Hiding in the subtext of many of these songs is the impending climate catastrophe. Mering crouches on the floor, staring at the camera not in a creepy way but in a strange, knowing way; there’s a feeling like this cataclysm was inevitable. It’s very much not an explicitly political album, something which can only exacerbate the political undertones running through its entire being. i feel like a huge douche and “that guy” to even be saying this, so i apologize in advance, but... this comment really doesn’t add anything to the discussion and it’s the most upvoted comment in this thread... there was so much effort put into the write up, it would be cool if it facilitates a discussion. A century apart, NUMA Director Dirk Pitt and detective Isaac Bell team up to unlock the truth about the most famous maritime disaster of all time. Private health insurers shuffle deck chairs on Titanic. I didn’t get into this in my writeup, but am I the only one who thinks that Movies doesn’t quite fit on the album? At about 02:16 am the Titanic's bow section had dipped to about 11 degrees and at that point the ship suddenly lost its longitudinal stability and gave a forward and downward 'lurch' that resulted in displacement of a large volume of water towards the rising stern.This was what many survivors described as a 'wave'. It’s interesting how wildly different people’s assessments of the 1970s can be. The sinking of the Titanic has since become one of the most famous tragedies in modern history, inspiring a blockbuster film and countless works of popular scholarship. The phrase Titanic Rising first appeared as a fictitious sequel to James Cameron’s 1997 blockbuster in the 2018 Amazon TV series Homecoming, which I haven’t seen, and apparently nor has Natalie Mering. Up today on the mantle for Album of the Year 2019, /u/themilkeyedmender talks one of 2019's most hyped about albums (and rightfully so! Yet Titanic Rising suggests there’s still reasons to be hopeful, if only for the pleasure of un-deluded ravishment. At about 02:16 am the Titanic's bow section had dipped to about 11 degrees and at that point the ship suddenly lost its longitudinal stability and gave a forward and downward 'lurch' that resulted in displacement of a large volume of water towards the rising stern.This was what many survivors described as a 'wave'. TITANIC director James Cameron thinks he’s found Atlantis. Picture Me Better 10. Natalie Mering, has announced 2020 North American tour dates in support of her album Titanic Rising.. Very atmospheric and interesting album, i love the engineering and production on it although I'm not sure if the songwriting is always at the same high standard that sets. They are all returning from holiday in Europe. It was sumptuous and it was lavish, encompassing sonic and lyrical messages of hope and hopelessness, giddy love and jaded bitterness, elaborate fantasy and the brutal Real, within the space of ten watertight art pop miniatures. I'll be able to listen to this album for the rest of my life and not have to associate it with a certain period. His documentary team has stumbled upon a cluster of six 4000-year-old anchors just outside the entrance to the Mediterranean. Sounds exactly like the album cover looks. On her way over she too struck an iceberg and went down on a cold April night. The album really pulls you in with the production and the melodies. l o a d i n g.... M ailing L ist. Browse All Investing. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts About The Titanic Secret. The unprecedented surplus energy supplied by fossil fuels has generated exceptional growth and enormous profits over the past two centuries. Titanic Rising doesn’t feel blissfully adrift. Every time 3:34 of Movies hits me it reminds me of The Leftovers for some reason haha. Review: The Unnerving Nostalgia of Weyes Blood’s ‘Titanic Rising’ Natalie Mering’s blissful vintage pop trip has freakouts lurking just out of frame — —:: stream/purchase Titanic Rising here Sorry. But in an age of secular fetishist disavowal, when our mechanical rituals carry out our believing on our behalf while we keep a comfortable, post subjective-belief distance, this message in these musical clothes feels decidedly out-of-time. Yet this is a stronger demand than one might originally assume – as the strings dance and the cymbals crash in that sumptuous outro, Mering’s stated desire isn’t just meaning and fulfillment, but something to believe. caption -the "titanic" leaving belfast louch for southampton april 2nd1912. Titanic Rising also tackles climate change and the devastating toll it’s taken on the earth. I could also point towards the sparkling slide guitar solo on Andromeda, the bluesy vocal inflections on “Something to Believe”, the glassy string arrangements and lavish backing vocals on “Wild Time”, but listing off these features feels a little like my A Level music exam – it misses the point somewhat. Harold Bloom wrote of influence as a kind of poetic entropy, where the unconscious reproduction of former and greater poets slowly wears out poetic value down the generational line, resulting in a terminal decline in both originality and artistic value. Of course every other track is stellar, but god Movies just steals the spotlight so hard it seems like every track before is leading up to it and every track after is coming down from it's high. Titanic Rising’s album cover is one of my all time favorites and I recently came across a video detailing how it was created for anyone interested Movies 7. I feel like this is an album where any song can be someone's favorite. level 1 Known for his character Dirk Pitt, Clive Cussler’s books are of the thriller genre. Maneuvering through a space-time continuum, sh I was lucky enough to see her this summer and was super happy she played plenty of front row. It’s a microcosm of the album as a whole – baroque integrity of form and signifier, moments of breathtaking audacity, an inability to remain still while never sacrificing coherence or tiring out the listener. Hosts Nick Laba and Maxim Fossey share their thoughts on the sounds and themes of her instrumentally lush collection of songs.. The album cover of Titanic Rising sees Weyes Blood in a pastel-hued facsimile of a late twentieth century teenage bedroom, completely submerged in water. I love it. 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