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Gig: Weyes Blood Popping up to add some vocal gle
am to Father John Misty’s God’s Favorite Customer last year was only the start of a massive 18 months for Natalie Mering, aka Weyes Blood. As 2019 kicked off, she announced her fourth album Titanic Rising, and when it arrived it became her most-acclaimed yet. A record full of slow, heavy magic, it was sweeping, ambitious and overwhelming, reminiscent of the power of the church music she grew up with. She comes to Stockholm in November. Weyes Blood, Slaktkyrkan, Nov 15 Exhibition: Sebastião Salgado Gig: Girl In Red Capitalism is brutal and blood-soaked everywhere, but in Brazil it’s always barely bothered to hide that fact, as anyone keeping an eye on Jair Bolsonaro’s government and its rancher allies burning the rainforest and displacing native people for a quick buck can see. Those events make Sebastião Salgado’s exhibition at Fotografiska especially timely. Here’s another look at how that process manifests, with his photographs from the Serra Pelada gold mine, once the world’s biggest surface gold deposit, showcasing the hardships and struggle of desperate people giving everything in the slim hope of a better life. Sebastião Salgado – Gold, Fotografiska, on display until Nov 17 The rapid rise of Norwegian artist Girl In Red is a tribute to the way the internet has shifted the sands of the classic music career path, especially among the young LGTBQ community. You wouldn’t immediately peg Marie Ulven’s lo-fi, scrappy heartbreak songs as having hit potential, but online’s rapid distribution, the tight communities her music moves in plus the power her songs have to connect to their audience means that she’s become pretty big pretty fast, with single I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend sitting on over 25 million streams on Spotify. She plays at Bar Brooklyn in November, where you can see what all the hype’s about. Girl In Red, Bar Brooklyn, Nov 11 28 Photo: Sebastião SalgadoPhoto: Paul Edwards Photo: Brett Stanley Photo: Cameron Davari