{"id":807833,"date":"2020-05-27T08:48:06","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T14:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=1005621"},"modified":"2020-05-27T08:48:06","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T14:48:06","slug":"weyes-blood-drops-wild-time-video-announces-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/weyes-blood-drops-wild-time-video-announces-new-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Weyes Blood Drops \u2018Wild Time\u2019 Video, Announces New Album"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Weyes Blood<\/a> released a trippy new video for \u201cWild Time\u201d while announcing a new album scheduled for 2021.<\/p>\n

The California singer-songwriter, real name Natalie Mering, directed the video herself, shot on 16mm film prior to the pandemic. The clip features Mering performing the Titanic Rising<\/em><\/a> track in the mountains, sitting cross-legged and strumming her acoustic guitar. She bathes in the river with some friends, who later douse themselves with paint.<\/p>\n

In an open letter<\/a> to fans, Mering claimed that the song was about \u201cyearning for wildness and Mother Nature in a time of chaos.\u201d She also confirmed that her 2020 tour<\/a> has been canceled due to the coronavirus, but no matter: She\u2019s already working on a follow-up to Titanic Rising<\/em>, slated for 2021.<\/p>\n

Mering released Titanic Rising<\/em> in April 2019, a record that tackled themes of climate change, isolation and the impending doom for millennials. \u201cI think a lot of people are living in a state of millennial burnout, trying to keep up with something that nobody really fully understands yet,\u201d she told Rolling Stone<\/em>.<\/a> Read Mering\u2019s full letter below.<\/p>\n

Good day everyone,<\/em><\/p>\n

Here is a video for my song \u201cWild Time\u201d that was shot on 16mm pre-Pandemic, then edited together during isolation. Felt like the right time to let this video out into the world, seeing as we\u2019re all getting saddled down by some pretty grim realities. This song is about yearning for wildness and Mother Nature in a time of chaos. It\u2019s for sensitive people who worry about the fate of humanity and feel powerless to do anything about it.<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve spent a lot of time thinking apocalyptic thoughts and realizing that won\u2019t get you anywhere. What if the world has always been ending? What if the sprawl of our cities are just as wild as the forests? What if climate change and the destruction of our natural habitat is a reflection of the nature within us, however sublimely horrifying and hard to understand? We\u2019re animals, we play out a very precarious drama of life, and we grasp for what\u2019s left of the protective womb \u2013 but maybe the notion that we\u2019re somehow separated from her is an illusion. Maybe it is, truly, a wild time to be alive. Maybe getting in touch with that as a culture and society would avert the worst-case scenarios of ecological crisis and existential dread.<\/em><\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve gotten this far, wow, thank you for actually taking the time to read this. In other news, as you may have assumed, I am canceling all of my headline shows for 2020, but I\u2019m beginning to work on my next album that will come out in 2021 \u2014 a different time, when hopefully we can see each other face to face once again.<\/em><\/p>\n

xo<\/em><\/p>\n

Natalie (a.k.a. Weyes Blood)<\/em><\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Weyes Blood released a trippy new video for \u201cWild Time\u201d while announcing a new album scheduled for 2021. The California singer-songwriter, real name Natalie Mering, directed the video herself, shot on 16mm film prior to the pandemic. The clip features Mering performing the Titanic Rising track in the mountains, sitting cross-legged and strumming her acoustic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-807833","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-10 04:02:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}