Seraphina Lotkhamnga on January 22nd, 2015

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When 25-year-old New York-via-Kentucky folk artist Natalie Mering — aka Weyes Blood — sings, her vocals are either a mighty bellow or a whimsical moan. It’s the kind of tone that puts a listener in between baroque melodies and memories of Woodstock. Formerly a member of Jackie-O Motherfucker and a one-time back up singer for Ariel Pink, her genre-bending tendencies unfold in modern lo-fi compositions on her latest album “The Innocents.” Mering’s occasional near-operatic crescendos nearly make “The Innocents” a classical record disguised as a psych-folk album. Warped piano riffs, ethereal synth lines and her strong alto set her apart from classic artists like Vashti Bunyan and contemporaries like Joanna Newsom. “The Innocents” is out now via Mexcian Summer.

||| Live: Weyes Blood plays Sunday at Jewel’s Catch One.

||| Also: Watch “Some Winters” after the jump.

Photo by Shawn Brackbill