Cardamom Times

Description

Weyes Blood's (Natalie Mering) warm and elegiac Cardamom Times is being reissued for the first time on vinyl since its sold-out 2015 initial pressing, in celebration of its fifth anniversary. It features new artwork of a ruined paradise at sunset—Jamaica Bay in Queens (New York), encircled by rust. A couple lies on the ground, caught in a timeless well-being. Since the EP's release, Weyes Blood's Front Row Seat to Earth (Mexican Summer, 2016) and Titanic Rising (Sub Pop, 2019) have both been named Best New Albums by Pitchfork, with the latter making many prestigious Best Albums of 2019 lists. Unlike those more elaborate albums, Cardamom Times was recorded to tape in Natalie's home studio in Rockaway Beach, New York. The songs on Cardamom Times demonstrate Weyes Blood's veneration for sacred music and the avant-garde, channeling Sybille Baer's hymns through the filter of the Baltimore experimental scene, the minimalist and melodic drone of Terry Riley accompanied by the voices of the Sacred Heart, the conflicting words of Anaïs Nin, and the warm embrace of St. Augustine. With Cardamom Times, Weyes Blood invites listeners into this space of love and nostalgia, struggle and change, surrounded by the decay of time that perpetually overtakes us.