Johanna

I drifted away last night
Through a silver sky
A whisper soft
From the stars above you
Dreams intertwine
Like shadows in light
[Chorus]
When you hold me
Fractals in sweet motion
In a gentle glow
[Verse 2]
I wandered the vast night
On a moonlit path
The air is thick
With your tender presence
Hope ignites
Whenever you draw near
[Chorus]
When you hold me
Fractals in sweet motion
When you hold me
Whispers in devotion
[Bridge]
Our hearts align
In a dance of dreams
Through the cosmos
We drift away together
[Chorus]
When you hold me
Fractals in sweet motion
In a gentle glow
 
[Verse 3]
Through veils of mist, where time stands still
Your laughter echoes, a soft thrill
In colors bright, our souls connect
As we chase the dawn, in quiet perfect

[Chorus]
When you hold me
Fractals in sweet motion
A tapestry of us,
We weave in devotion
 
[Verse 4]
In the echo of twilight, we take our flight
Through instincts and whispers, everything feels right
With every heartbeat, a symphony plays
In the softest hues, where love always stays

[Chorus]
When you hold me
Fractals in sweet motion
In a gentle glow
A universe in motion

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Technological fatigue. Narcissism anxiety. A galaxy of isolation. These are the new norms keeping Weyes Blood (aka Natalie Mering) up at night and the themes at the heart of her latest release, And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow (Sub Pop Records). 

The album is her follow-up to the acclaimed Titanic Rising. (Pitchfork, NPR, The Guardian admiringly named it one of 2019’s best.)  Where Titanic was an observation of doom to come, And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow is about being in the thick of it: a search for an escape hatch to liberate us from algorithms and ideological chaos. “We’re in a fully functional shit show,” Mering says. “My heart is a glow stick that’s been cracked, lighting up my chest in an explosion of earnestness.”

And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow opens with the wistful, winsome “It's Not Just Me, It's Everybody” — about the interconnectivity of all beings, but also the fraying of society around us. “I was asking a lot of questions while writing these songs. Hyper isolation kept coming up,” Mering says. “Our culture relies less and less on people. Something is off, and even though the feeling appears differently for each individual, it is universal.”

Other tracks follow in kind. The lullaby-like “Grapevine” chronicles the splintering of a human connection. The otherworldly dirge “God Turn Me into a Flower” serves as an allegory about our collective hubris. “The Worst Is Done” is an ominous warning, set against a deceivingly breezy pop melody. 

“Chaos is natural. But so is negentropy, or the tendency for things to fall into order,” she says. “These songs may not be manifestos or solutions, but I know they shed light on the meaning of our contemporary disillusionment.”

Andromeda

Weyes Blood

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