Titanic Rising is enormous. Maybe it's apt, given the title and also the music itself, that the album's immensity took a while to impress itself on me - it took quite a few listens for me to get it, despite expecting to like it after 2017's Front Row Seat to Earth. The lushness was a barrier, but in the way of these things, once the flip had occurred, it became part of the attraction.
The first four songs - "A Lot's Gonna Change", "Andromeda", "Everyday" and "Something to Believe" - are all relatively conventional pop songs, at least by Mering's woodsy standards, but after the mid-album instrumental title track, the tenor shifts subtly deeper, with "Movies", "Mirror Forever" and "Wild Time" all seeming somehow more waterily below-the-surface than the opening run; then there's the gentle "Picture Me Better" and another instrumental, "Nearer to Thee", to end.
These songs sound like soundtracks to a movie; listening to them reminds me why that's a quality I've so often sought in music.
The first four songs - "A Lot's Gonna Change", "Andromeda", "Everyday" and "Something to Believe" - are all relatively conventional pop songs, at least by Mering's woodsy standards, but after the mid-album instrumental title track, the tenor shifts subtly deeper, with "Movies", "Mirror Forever" and "Wild Time" all seeming somehow more waterily below-the-surface than the opening run; then there's the gentle "Picture Me Better" and another instrumental, "Nearer to Thee", to end.
These songs sound like soundtracks to a movie; listening to them reminds me why that's a quality I've so often sought in music.
