Weyes Blood

Natalie Laura Mering (born June 11, 1988), known professionally as Weyes Blood (pronounced /waɪzblʌd/), is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. She was primarily raised in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. She began her career in the underground noise music scene, first as bassist of the Portland, Oregon-based group Jackie-O Motherfucker, and then with the Baltimore-based group Nautical Almanac.\n', 'Mering subsequently began recording her own material under variations of the name Weyes Blood, inspired by Flannery O’Connor\'s 1952 novel Wise Blood. After her self-released debut album, The Outside Room (2011), she signed with the independent label Mexican Summer, releasing The Innocents (2014) and Front Row Seat to Earth (2016). She released her fourth studio album, Titanic Rising (2019) on Sub Pop, to critical acclaim.\n', 'Natalie Laura Mering was born June 11, 1988 in Santa Monica, California, into a deeply religious born again Pentecostal Christian family. Commenting on her upbringing, Mering said: "I was raised in a real spiritual, Bible Belt household. So I developed my own cynicism because there are always things in the bible that really bum me out...  I became really obsessed with The Kids in the Hall as a kid, and they had Scott Thompson, who\'s like the one gay member. I remember having this feeling that "Oh, Scott Thompson isn\'t going to heaven? How could that be?" That was my first big tipoff that something wasn\'t quite right with dogmatic Christianity. And then I was just trying to undo it since the age of 12."\n', '