Weyes Blood Meditates On Climate Change And Learns To Cope With Loss

Titanic Rising, Natalie Mering's latest album from her long-running project Weyes Blood, invites the listener in with a comforting, somewhat nostalgic sound. But beneath that warm, dream-pop bed of music is a flood of anxieties about climate change, finding love and a friend's suicide.

Mering, 30, does a lot of talking to her younger self on this album and sees the track "A Lot's Gonna Change," as the theme of the entire record: "Learning how to cope with these changes in a way that doesn't completely bog you down in a sense of hopelessness," she explains.

There's also a strong sense of larger-than-life, celestial wonder on this album. On the track "Movies," Mering remembers how the 1997 blockbuster Titanic had a profound impact on her, but in a different context than most her age.