Despite this exhausting moment of endless album cycles and near-simultaneous deluxe reissues, it can be refreshing to be reminded of the hold a certain album had over all of us five years ago. Weyes Blood’s Titanic Rising comes to mind, as Natalie Mering’s breakout 2019 LP celebrated its fifth anniversary at the beginning of the month. And rather than re-releasing it with, like, one new song tacked onto the end of it she’s instead unearthing a music video for the record’s single “Andromeda,” which was originally conceived and (mostly filmed) all the way back in 2018.
Co-directed by Mering, Ambar Navarro, and Colton Stock, the visual was recently completed and arrives today in all of its intergalactic glory. In the clip, Mering is seen stylishly traversing a Mars-like landscape, while an additional Mering seems equally lost floating in space and yet another straddles an asteroid like Major Kong in Dr. Strangelove, ultimately violently colliding with Earth. It’s a reminder of the environmental message at the core of Titanic Rising, which she elucidated on in our 2019 interview included in our sustainability-themed 10th print issue.
Check out the video below.
