“I figure, getting beaten up by the waves of truth, or reality, or information is part of getting thicker skin to keep going out there and seeking answers,” Weyes Blood – aka Natalie Mering – tells me over Zoom from Berlin. The Santa Monica-born singer-songwriter has now reached the European leg of her year-long world tour. “I like to think [touring] turns you into a unicorn, it’s like you are cornered into this weird valley of mythical lifestyles. Inevitably it's going to get wild” she adds, “it's going to get rocky, you know buses break down, sh*t happens, so we keep it light. I always love hearing my band laughing, we always try to make each other laugh.”
Our chat comes almost a year on from the release of the 35-year-old’s fifth studio album, And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow, a sweeping body of work that dives head first into the human need for connection in an increasingly fragmented world; a sistering body of work to her previous album, the apocalyptic siren call, Titanic Rising (2019).
