Music-Drop Magazine

It’s time to look at singer-songwriter Weyes Blood’s latest record, her first sub-pop release, Titanic Rising . Weyes Blood is an artist who has been working for years at crafting her sound. She’s the sort of artist who you’ve perhaps stumbled upon and listened to once on a late night of YouTube recommendations. You sit there intrigued by her sound of the carpenters meeting the 21 st century and sit mellowed out to her songs until suddenly its over and its forgettable, it simply doesn’t grab you, assault your ears and force you to remember it. Instead you look at the name Weyes Blood and think ‘hey I kind of like her.’ For me that was my experience with her song Do You Need My Love from Front Row Seat To Earth (2016) , I liked it but I didn’t love it. It soared, it was beautiful but it was shy of great. With Titanic Rising her sound hasn’t changed exactly. She hasn’t left the Karen Carpenter comparison behind but she no longer sounds quite so pastiche. ...

This is a new segment of my blog which i am going to dedicate to Old (but not forgotten) artists. The first Albums I will Do this for is Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" , this is not my favourite album and would not even be in my top 50, but due to it being a critics favourite it gets to go first. Tracklist  1. What's Going On 2. What's Happening Brother  3. Flyin' High (In The Friendly Sky) 4. Save The Children 5. God Is Love 6. Mercy Mercy Me 7. Right On 8. Whole Holy 9. Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) This album was an album full of firsts, the first album that Marvin produced, his first solo effort without Tammi Terell and the first Motown record that was politically motivated. It was also Marvin And Soul Music's first Concept Album as well as Motown's first album which credited Session Musicians. So even if this album was bad, it would be in the history books anyway. BUT it wasn't bad. No. Not at all. The Album...