(2015) Weyes Blood - Cardamom Times (EP) [FLAC,Tracks] {100.XY}

Review:
Weyes Blood, apparently a play on Flannery O’Connor’s novel, is the vehicle for Natalie Mering, an avant gardish folkie from Rockaway Beach, New York. The four songs on Cardamom Times are the follow up to her acclaimed album The Innocents from last year and continue to find her in the folk hinterland, a strange mish mash of Nico’s Desert Shore, Judy Henske’s Farewell Aldebaran and Joanna Newsom’s strangeness.
If this were a slice of vintage vinyl on some obscure label from the early seventies it would surely be worth a mint. As it is Mering delivers four songs backed by acoustic guitar, wind instruments and spectral keyboards with her voice soaked in echo adding an otherworldly feel. In fact the underworld, a cold and forbidding underground cathedral extending into eternity would be an appropriate setting for the EP’s lengthy centrepiece, “Take You There.” Here Mering intones over an organ like sound (manipulated methinks) summoning up a feel not dissimilar to Gavin Bryars’ Jesus Never Failed Me Yet. It’s chilling and chillingly addictive but is soon dispelled by the dappled folk delivery of “Cardamom,” a song that truly recalls bucolic folk from the sixties. There’s more psych folk on “In The Beginning” and again it’s a beguiling song; more layered than its predecessors it hums and throbs with that peculiar mix of woodland mythology and folk knowledge that marked out many of the artists who populate Rob Young’s book, Electric Eden. Perfect music for entertaining Ents and Elves.
Rating 9/10




Tracklist:
01 - Maybe Love.flac
02 - Take You There.flac
03 - Cardamom.flac
04 - In The Beginning.flac

Summary:
Genre: Indie-Folk
Country: USA

Media Report:
Source : CD
Format : FLAC
Format/Info : Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : ~744-839 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits