AceShowbiz - In March 2025, during a full Virgo lunar eclipse, Weyes Blood found herself unexpectedly isolated in the remote woods of Big Sur, California. A fallen tree had knocked out a power line, cutting off electricity and blocking the only road out of the canyon. “I didn’t have cell service, and I couldn’t leave this cabin,” recalls the 37-year-old singer-songwriter, whose real name is Natalie Mering. “That place is so mystically isolated.”

Accompanied by her rescued Pomeranian, Luigi, Mering spent her days building fires and focusing on her new album, the follow-up to her 2022 release And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow. Unlike previous projects, this one has been a longer, more deliberate process. “I was like, ‘I need to live that real-person life and have experiences that aren’t just wandering around singing,’” she explains via Zoom. “It’s been a journey.”

The journey has indeed been complex. Late in 2024, Mering spent a month in Spain, writing songs while visiting friends in the fishing village of Lastres. Shortly after returning to Los Angeles in January 2025, she lost her home to the devastating Eaton Fire. “I’ve been in exile since then,” she says. “It’s been great to get to experience so many different places, even though it’s also been topsy-turvy.”

Following her time in Big Sur, Mering moved east to New York City, where she had lived for over a decade. She stayed in sublets on the Lower East Side and West Village. “There’s a certain poetry to New York,” she reflects. “You’re confronted with humanity every day. When you’ve lived in L.A. for nine years, and to cap it all off, it ends in a crazy, very heartbreaking natural disaster, my first thought was like, ‘I should just get back in touch with the East Coast spirit of things, and why I started making music in the first place.’”

In New York, she began recording at the legendary Electric Lady Studios, specifically in Studio B, located downstairs. “It’s like a submarine,” she describes. “It’s really close to the underwater river, and I guess Jimi Hendrix built that space there to be close to the flow. We would get in there, and seven hours would just zip by without a single glance at the sun. We would just be in our bunker, experimenting. It was an amazing, timeless kind of energy.”

This new album marks an important milestone for Weyes Blood, as it is the first time she has taken on the role of executive producer. She is collaborating with longtime partner Jonathan Rado and working alongside other producers. Key contributors include Nick Movshon on bass, Homer Steinweiss on drums, and Benny Bock on keyboards. Throughout the process, she has had a working title for the album but prefers to keep it under wraps for now. “I don’t want to jinx it,” she says. “But it’s very reflective of the time I’m at in my life, and how much being a woman changes over time.”

Despite initially planning to stay in New York, Mering found herself drawn back to California. “I thought I was going to move there, but then something happened,” she admits. “My body started yearning for California, my true home.” She returned to Los Angeles, settling back near the beach and desert areas, and resumed recording at a Malibu studio.

At the time of the interview in late March, Mering reports the album is about 90 percent complete. During the recording process, she has stayed off social media, explaining, “I go dark when I make a record,” and has limited her news intake to podcasts only. In addition to her own work, she recently contributed to the soundtrack of Marty Supreme, an Oscar-nominated film directed by Josh Safdie and featuring Timothée Chalamet.

During a promotional video interview for the film, Chalamet asked co-star Gwyneth Paltrow if she had heard of Weyes Blood. Mispronouncing her stage name, he said it rhymes with “ways” instead of “wise.” Paltrow appeared confused and suggested he check out Bonnie Raitt instead, highlighting the musician’s still niche but growing recognition.

With her new album nearing completion, Weyes Blood is preparing to share the next phase of her artistic evolution—a record born from isolation, renewal, and deep reflection on life’s changing seasons. Fans can anticipate a sonic journey shaped by the physical and emotional landscapes she has traversed over the past year.