"Natalie Mering’s new album, “And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow,” redirects the sounds of late ’60s and early ’70s West Coast folk-rock to a 2023 concern: pandemic isolation. (...) Mering’s distinct alto has the opalescence of Karen Carpenter’s voice and the enveloping benevolence of Cass Elliot’s, though as a songwriter she shares a certain millennial poeticism with Lana Del Rey." (New York Times)