My Mind Is Open

Drugdealer featuring Weyes Blood “Suddenly”

Everything about this song screams “I’m from the early ‘70s,” to the point that the only tell is in the production, which has a very contemporary digital chilliness to it. (I am not actually certain this was recorded and/or mixed digitally, but I would be a lot of money that it was.) The piano chords sound like they’re meant to deliberately evoke hits by Todd Rundgren and Carole King, and give you a grounding in some very familiar and wholesome vibe before drifting into a dreamier type of psychedelia. This is basically a love song about taking psychedelics, and Natalie Mering sings it with a tone that feels both intimate and weirdly detached, which is pretty much exactly right for the subject matter. She always sounds like she’s not quite there with you, and moving somewhere else with the chords.

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