Hearts Aglow

Read enough music reviews, and you’ll find the same words over and over again. These phrases, like “ethereal,” “transcendent,” “otherworldly”—what do they mean? They want to transport a reader in some way, the same way a song can take you out of your daily grind and bring you into a universe of its own for three to five minutes. Overuse may have rendered these descriptions cliche, but you’d be hard-pressed to find others to describe the sound of Weyes Blood on her new album, And In the Darkness, Hearts Aglow.