Weyes Blood - Andromeda

What this video is

Released April 15, 2024, the video for 'Andromeda' occupies a rare temporal double-exposure: the bulk of its footage was shot in 2018, grounding it visually in the pre-pandemic indie aesthetic of Titanic Rising's creation, while its completion and release in 2024 recontextualizes it through five years of cultural upheaval, climate anxiety, and post-pandemic introspection. The song itself — described as a folk love…

Why it matters

As a key artifact of the 2019 art-pop and chamber-folk renaissance, 'Andromeda' helped establish Weyes Blood as a canonical figure in a lineage running from Joni Mitchell's late-70s output through 4AD dream-pop. The video's 2024 release extended its cultural reach, functioning simultaneously as…

The director

Natalie Mering, known professionally as Weyes Blood, is an American singer-songwriter based in Los Angeles. She released her critically acclaimed fourth studio album Titanic Rising on Sub Pop in 2019 and has directed several of her own music videos. Ambar…