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The WEATHER STATION – ” Thirty “

Posted: October 6, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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The Weather Station is the fourth—and most forthright—album by The Weather Station, the project of Toronto songwriter Tamara Lindeman. Her most fully realized statement to date, it is a work of profound urgency, artistic generosity, and joy. Self-titled and self-produced, the album unearths a vital new energy from Lindeman’s acclaimed songwriting practice, marrying it to a bold new sense of confidence.

“I wanted to make a rock and roll record,” Lindeman explains, “but one that sounded how I wanted it to sound, which of course is nothing like rock and roll.” The result is a spirited, frequently topical tour de force that declares its understated feminist politics, and its ambitious new sonic directions, from its first moments. On past records, Lindeman has been a master of economy. Here her precisely detailed prose-poem narratives remain as exquisitely wrought as ever, but they inhabit an idiosyncratic, sometimes disorderly, and often daring album that feels, and reads, like a collection of obliquely gut-punching short stories.

Her previous album Loyalty was recorded at La Frette Studios in France in the winter of 2014 with Afie Jurvanen (Bahamas) and Robbie Lackritz (Feist). Nominated for the 2015 Polaris Music Prize, it earned praise from The Guardian, Pitchfork, NPR Music, Uncut, and MOJO, among many others, who celebrated its delicate, carefully worded verse, filled with double meanings, ambiguities, complex metaphors, and rich details of the everyday.

The Weather Station’s S/T album is out October 6th, 2017 on Paradise of Bachelors (worldwide), Outside Music (Canada), & Spunk Records (AU/NZ).

The WEATHER STATION – ” Thirty “

Posted: August 23, 2017 in MUSIC
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Canadian singer-songwriter Tamara Lindeman, Aka The Weather Station has announced plans to release her forth studio album on the 6th October. On her fourth (and tellingly self-titled) album as The Weather Station, Tamara Lindeman reinvents, and more deeply roots, her extraordinary, acclaimed songcraft, framing her precisely detailed, exquisitely wrought prose-poem narratives in bolder and more cinematic musical settings. The result is her most sonically direct and emotionally candid statement to date, a work of profound urgency and artistic generosity.
“Timeless… Measured, perceptive storytelling. A singer with an unmistakable & communicative voice, able to convey hope & hurt with equal clarity.” – Pitchfork
“She writes literate songs with unusual precision & sings them in an understated, open-hearted way that lends good poetry the directness of conversation.” – Uncut
The self-titled album sees The Weather Station channelling a new, more energetic sound.  To be released on Paradise of Bachelors Records.

“I wanted to make a rock and roll record,” Lindeman explained, “but one that sounded how I wanted it to sound, which of course is nothing like rock and roll.”

The first single from The Weather Station is the wonderful “Thirty”

The WEATHER STATION – ” Shy Women “

Posted: April 8, 2015 in MUSIC
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Paradise of Bachelors is a Record Label, Plus Archive located in the North Carolina Piedmont and in the subluminal aether of Chapel Hill, they has spent the past few years building its reputation as one of the finest labels around for traditionally minded North American music. If they’re putting it out, its worth listening. On May 12th, They will release The Weather Station new Album “Loyalty“,  The Weather Station is Toronto’s Tamara Lindeman  This her third album titled “Loyalty”  recorded in a 19th century mansion outside Paris. Like that studio, or memorable art, the record seems to exist outside time. “I saw recently the works of Mary Pratt, a Newfoundland artist who spent most of her life as a housewife—her husband was a successful painter,” Lindeman said “Her paintings depict domestic scenes—jelly in jars, cod fillets in aluminum foils, a salmon head in a sink, but in such rich, elaborate detail, it’s painful somehow. I guess when I see her paintings, I realize that I’m trying to do the same thing, with my music.

“Shy Women,” a perfect example of her attentiveness to minute, universalizing details. “It started the same as most my songs do—a small, commonplace moment that I couldn’t get out of my head,” There was something about it, so ordinary that it begged to be described, and describing it felt powerful somehow—simply to say that it was important, this common place thing—worth singing about. And as I did, the moment revealed itself as a kind of elevator shaft, going pretty much straight down, through all the ‘shyness’ of myself and many of the women I grew up with, and all the moments when we had kept silence, and how that silence has underpinned so much that is deeply wrong.”

One of the great lines in “Shy Women” is: You were staring out, your eyes real straight, like nothing touches you these days/ It seemed to me that luxury would be to be not so ashamed. She explained a bit: “When I say it would be a ‘luxury to be not so ashamed,’ I mean that completely. Shame is, for most women, a constant companion, and is I think the last greatest gender divide, that will be with us for as long as women feel their experience is not worth speaking of, and blame themselves for the actions and feelings of others.” Below, it adds up to a remarkable song.

The WEATHER STATION – ” Way It Is, Way It Could Be “

Posted: February 19, 2015 in MUSIC
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The Weather Station is the project of Toronto’s Tamara Lindeman, a musician I was first heard of when she collaborated with Will Stratton. She compelled me immediately. Clearly, I wasn’t the only one who felt that way considering Lindeman just signed with label Paradise Of Bachelors, the storied,this singer songwriter and folklore-focused and a label that plucked artists like Hiss Golden Messenger, Steve Gunn, from relative obscurity and gave them a national stage.

Now, they’ve invested in the Weather Station, and a few listens of her third full-length record “Loyalty” indicate that their impeccable taste is intact. Recorded just outside Paris at La Frette Studios last winter, Loyalty is imbued with the crisp intimacy of the coldest season, the allure of the city of lights. Tamara Lindeman’s voice floats by in the highest of registers of her voice, never breathy but, instead, misty and amorphous.
On the record she plays guitar, banjo, keys, and vibraphone, but like most artists who take the folk music tack with any success, it’s Lindeman’s songwriting that catches your attention and holds it. She’s clever without any smugness, rendering every day events into existential pictures of uncertainty, poking and prodding at subconscious desires without ever fully exposing them.

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Take album opener “Way It Is, Way It Could Be,” for example. Lilting along the twin lines of quickly picked acoustic guitar and a linear, electric guitar backbone, it’s one of the more upbeat tracks on the record. Ostensibly a journey through winter, the song investigates the ambiguity that lives with us as long as we’re here on earth: “The way it is and the way it could be both are.” In Lindeman’s capable hands, this is neither a blessing or a curse. It’s the mark of a good songwriter to force us to keep two futures in mind at once, never letting on if either of them exist at all.

 

The WEATHER STATION – ” Personal Eclipse “

Posted: September 5, 2014 in MUSIC
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The Weather Station is  Tamara Lindeman who has a new EP out a 6 song limited edition “What Am I going To do with Everything” recorded with members of Megafaun in North Carolina, Finger picked guitars and harmonies unexpected stray snare drums and the occasional electric guitar Also a new album release with members of Feist and Bahamas titled “Loyalty” should be released later this year.

Check out The Weather Station and a  collection of Duets released on Bandamp, with Marine Dreams, Daniel Romano and Baby Eagle,

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