Picking up some mid-90s Laurie Anderson vibes on "Robber" this song
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Monday, 19 October 2020 20:50 (three years ago) link
woops...really gotta proof before i post
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Monday, 19 October 2020 20:51 (three years ago) link
This should be Exactly My Thing, but it feels a little too on the nose somehow? I'll give it another shot.
― pomenitul, Monday, 19 October 2020 20:51 (three years ago) link
I just listened - first time hearing this band and I'm in love.Gonna give the self-titled a spin tomorrow.
― ˈʌglɪɪst preɪ, Monday, 19 October 2020 21:01 (three years ago) link
love this but of course i'd love this sort of talk talk-adjacent sophisti-pop stuff
― ufo, Monday, 19 October 2020 22:51 (three years ago) link
Loyalty remains my favorite - one of my all time favorite albums, desert island stuff - but very curious about the new one
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 20 October 2020 09:02 (three years ago) link
Something Sandro Perri about it too.
― Evan, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 03:10 (three years ago) link
Read about this on another thread, and wondering how she managed to pass me by!
So after listening to The Robber, I went back and listened to the previous two albums, and getting kind of a Julia Holter vibe from them - the combination of folk-rock plus jazzy bits plus those unexpected modern-classical string arrangements bringing out unexpected twists?
Also got an intensely familiar vibe from her voice, like a sense of "I know her...?" (Does she remind me of Holter, or Glasser? Or someone else?) But also think that she taps into a certain style of North American White Girl Pretty-Voice which *feels* achingly familiar, becuase it is definitely a quality of voice which signifies something - but it's that quality of vocal tone which feels familiar, rather than her actual singing voice?
― first we save the rave (Branwell with an N), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 12:10 (three years ago) link
Her voice doesn't sound much like either to me - I only really know the S/T but I have absolutely hammered it over the years, as with Julia Holter actually. Her voice is fuller and richer than Holter's and they're coming from different place I think (modern classical/chamber pop vs rich girl indie-folk).
I dunno, is Joni Mitchell too obvious a reference point? Laura Marling?
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 13:58 (three years ago) link
Also I'm listening to Loyalty now and feeling like a dick for not doing so years ago.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 13:59 (three years ago) link
First listen and her voice in places has got a deep velvety but slightly husky quality that makes me think of Tanita Tikaram
― kites aren't fun (NickB), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 14:32 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdEI775vfnI
heard this live version on a comp a year or two ago, hadn't realized there was a video. sometimes her vocal phrasing reminds me of paul simon in a good way.
― adam, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 14:41 (three years ago) link
"thirty" is such an amazing song
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 15:06 (three years ago) link
Tamara feels to me like the refinement and distillation of a handful of threads of Canadian music-- Siberry, The Hip, Gordon Lightfoot in particular. Most importantly, though, is the intangible "wrecking crew" of musicians/producers/engineers in Toronto and Montreal (in particular)-- more of a "wrecking cloud", I guess-- a larger collective of extremely capable individuals, many of whom are prominently featured in The Weather Station's recordings. You'll find a lot of the same musicians on this record are also featured, say, on Lido Pimienta's recent Tiny Desk, or my own production work; we're really having a moment up here imo!
It's nice to see Will Kidman (of Constantines, Woolly Leaves) on guitar in that video of "Thirty"; he is playing drums in the video for "Robber", too
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 15:25 (three years ago) link
finally checked out "robbers" def hear the ricki lee jones pirates era in it
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 15:27 (three years ago) link
re that cloud, two drummers on <I>Ignorance</i> (neither is kidman) - one of them is Phil Melanson, who is all over (for example) the new Sam Gendel record
and then there are contributions from toronto's jazz/ratdrifting crew, like Ryan Driver and Christine Bougie
― sean gramophone, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 15:32 (three years ago) link
Oh no, I didn't state that Kidman was on the track itself (I don't know, one way or another), just in the video-- as is Johnny Spence! as an actor. The other drummer is Kieran Adams, and, well, where to start? https://www.discogs.com/artist/1345463-Kieran-Adams
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 15:40 (three years ago) link
yeah i didn't mean to correct you, o! obviously you know all this stuff. :) just bringing it to other people's interest/attention
― sean gramophone, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 15:48 (three years ago) link
New song. Album Ignorance to be released in February. https://theweatherstation.bandcamp.com/album/ignorance
― willem, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 06:48 (three years ago) link
"tried to tell you" is also excellent, really looking forward to this album
― ufo, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 09:49 (three years ago) link
Ta, Willem. Another top knotch single, likewise can't wait for this to drop!
― knowing for certain the first touch of the light will finish you (fionnland), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 10:47 (three years ago) link
Good groove, looking forward to the album!
― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 14:58 (three years ago) link
Thanks Willem, great. All she touches becomes gold...
― walking towards the sun since 2007 (alex in mainhattan), Monday, 23 November 2020 15:09 (three years ago) link
was hoping Subdivisions would be a cover of the Rush song but looks like no
― thousand-yard spiral stairs (f. hazel), Monday, 23 November 2020 15:59 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_BRoP1yqjo
this album is going to be fantastic
― ufo, Wednesday, 6 January 2021 13:43 (three years ago) link
all three songs so far have really hit it out of the park
― ufo, Wednesday, 6 January 2021 13:58 (three years ago) link
finally got the s/t on vinyl after listening to it so much on streaming, still a great record sounds beautiful on vinyl
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 14:10 (three years ago) link
Climate Change Is Worsening. So the Weather Station Is Singing About It.
Some musicians are compelled to write a song after a lovers’ quarrel, an encounter with a great work of art or a particularly resonant overheard exchange. Tamara Lindeman, the 36-year-old Canadian singer and songwriter who records under the name the Weather Station, was recently driven to write one immediately after reading an article about the oil and gas corporation Exxon Mobil.
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 16:55 (three years ago) link
Goin' Mobil
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 17:48 (three years ago) link
album is quite good, maybe not as overwhelmingly great as the singles were but i'm still very impressed
the orchestration + motorik rhythms reminds me a lot of some tracks owen pallett's heartland which is always delightful to be reminded of (i realise they did some of the string arrangements here too)
― ufo, Sunday, 31 January 2021 12:57 (three years ago) link
There's an extended family of musicians that have been cross-pollinating everything up here, I call it "The Wrecking Cloud". Extends from Toronto to Montreal, touches every album from Lido to Andy Shauf to Martha and on and on
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 31 January 2021 15:41 (three years ago) link
Oh ya I said this already a few months ago lol
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 31 January 2021 15:42 (three years ago) link
Ha, O! The Wrecking Cloud is hilariously apt.
I'd especially recommend to anyone into Tamara who hasn't heard Bernice yet that they check that project out, too: https://bernice.bandcamp.com/album/eau-de-bonjourno
Whereas Tamara's prob closer in sound/spirit to Jennifer Castle, and Robin Dann/Bernice works more with an electronic R&B palate closer to DIANA in terms of fellow Torontonians, these are all interrelated pockets of music activity that I've been especially excited by over the last decade+ via being both friends and fans of these people via venue-hangouts like the Tranzac and the now-defunct Holy Oak.
Two other more jazz-adjacent local labels with ties to Tamara would be the late CD label Rat-drifting (via Ryan Driver, an incredible keyboard player and warbly balladeer) and the still-running CD label All Set! Editions (via Mike Smith, a brilliant bassist and between-genres composer who is also often hired to arrange strings for folks like Tamara and Jennifer).
There's also Matt "Prince Nifty" Smith, who has been in a long-standing trio with 0P above and now co-produces Lido P.: https://princenifty.bandcamp.com/album/were-not-in-kansas-anymoreand Brodie West, who plays sax on "Robber" and leads a great tropical/Ethio jazz band called Eucalyptus (which Mike S. and R. Driver are in, incidentally): https://brodiewest.bandcamp.com/album/kick-it-till-you-flip-it
Forgive the cloudiness of my rambling scene report
― Kangol In The Light (Craig D.), Sunday, 31 January 2021 17:15 (three years ago) link
The Wrecking Cloud aesthetic got applied to tMG's album from 2019, too-- Thom Gill, Johnny Spence and Bram Gielen were all brought in to hit some home runs. Bram was hired back for "Getting Into Knives". All these people are so heavy
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 31 January 2021 19:03 (three years ago) link
Totally--I'd also shine a light on Felicity Williams as a semi-secret-weapon vocal ninja, maybe most heard outside T.O. circles for her work in the Bahamas band (along with Christine Bougie, another wizard session player who plays aux guitar w/ Afie J and is likewise part of this forthcoming Weather Station album that I'll clunkily tie it all back to)
― Kangol In The Light (Craig D.), Sunday, 31 January 2021 20:48 (three years ago) link
shoutout joseph shabason
phil melanson (Wreicking Cloud member) also appears on the new Sam Gendel (west coast US saxophone)
― sean gramophone, Sunday, 31 January 2021 22:24 (three years ago) link
For sure--Philadelphia and Satin Doll were both 2020 standout releases IMO
― Kangol In The Light (Craig D.), Sunday, 31 January 2021 22:51 (three years ago) link
P4K IG Live-from-home concert tonight at 6pm:https://www.instagram.com/p/CK1gPMCFf3s/
― Kangol In The Light (Craig D.), Wednesday, 3 February 2021 21:27 (three years ago) link
best new music on pitchfork!
i was wondering, seemed like they'd been investing in weather station a bit in the run-up
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 5 February 2021 16:14 (three years ago) link
lmao this is such ILM catnip
it's nice but feels a bit too polite/anaesthetized or something for my liking
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Friday, 5 February 2021 16:18 (three years ago) link
it falls off for me a little bit in the second half which is generally slower and less propulsive
― ufo, Friday, 5 February 2021 16:19 (three years ago) link
i have had the chorus of "tried to tell you" in my head for months now though, i love that little keyboard lick
― ufo, Friday, 5 February 2021 16:22 (three years ago) link
yeah the more upbeat songs were the standouts for me
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Friday, 5 February 2021 16:22 (three years ago) link
is the last song a rush cover y/n
― mookieproof, Friday, 5 February 2021 16:24 (three years ago) link
"heart" is what I want out of this sort of thing
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Friday, 5 February 2021 16:28 (three years ago) link
Album sounds really warm and full, but not heavy or overly fussy in the least. Really nice arrangements.
― Indexed, Friday, 5 February 2021 22:52 (three years ago) link
This is an album whose bone-deep grief sits inside music that’s very easy to tap a toe to.
Fantastic review by Kitty Empire: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/feb/06/the-weather-station-ignorance-review-tamara-lindeman-hope-heartbroken-masterpiece
I don't even know if I've reached bone-deep levels of listening to this - I'm not sure if I like this a lot or love it - but I do know it's definitely there for me to listen to if I so choose and open myself up to it. (and for Lindeman, this is well deserved and overdue praise imo)
― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 7 February 2021 00:54 (three years ago) link
at the risk of being canadianist, her voice is not unlike that of sarah mclachlan
(which is fine because sarah mclachlan rules)
― mookieproof, Thursday, 11 February 2021 00:50 (three years ago) link
I've listened to Ignorance a few times today, and I'm definitely into it. (Hadn't heard of them before "Robber" showed up on 2020 year-end lists.) This is probably reductive, but it reminds me of Wye Oak meets This Is the Kit.
― jaymc, Saturday, 6 March 2021 06:01 (three years ago) link
I've seen a few reviews making Kate Bush comparisons and Lindeman herself has mentioned Kate Bush as an influence, which, obviously, a lot of people have been influenced by Kate Bush, but what's cool about Ignorance is that the Kate Bush album it reminds me of most is Aerial -- tonally, melodically, lyrically. Which is great because I love Aerial I can't think of anything else I've heard where it really felt like that album specifically was a big influence.
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Wednesday, 30 June 2021 22:44 (three years ago) link
that's pretty much where I'm at
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 1 July 2021 01:23 (three years ago) link
It's not great, nor does it particularly sound like RLJ or Mitchell, but it's a smart album as exactly as long as it needs to be. Good albums are fine.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 1 July 2021 01:27 (three years ago) link
to me this is so obviously Fumbling Towards Ecstacy more than anything
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 1 July 2021 12:43 (three years ago) link
I hear Spirit of Eden-era Talk Talk.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 1 July 2021 12:48 (three years ago) link
I also hear War On Drugs on a couple of the more motorik-pop mid-to-uptempo tunes ("Tried To Tell You", "Parking Lot")
― Kangol In The Light (Craig D.), Thursday, 1 July 2021 12:58 (three years ago) link
it reminds me of most is Aerial -- tonally, melodically, lyrically.
I see that. I hear Spirit Of Eden more.
I'm of the minority opinion that her previous stuff was better
I had a conversation with a friend (and a friend of the band) a couple days ago who good-naturedly expressed the same feeling, an appreciation for the new one but a preference for the previous, so you're not alone!
― what's fgti up to these days? nothing. she's fake (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 1 July 2021 15:52 (three years ago) link
yeah my fave is Loyalty (2015) by a mile
love it all though and will listen to anything she writes
― corrs unplugged, Monday, 12 July 2021 12:16 (three years ago) link
"Tried to Tell You - Piano Version"
https://open.spotify.com/track/28JduSa5YuHJMvubBBe6VU?si=0e2d76196323416e
― Indexed, Wednesday, 21 July 2021 13:28 (three years ago) link
https://theweatherstation.bandcamp.com/album/deluxe-edition-of-ignorance
deluxe edition with some live cuts, solo piano versions, & most importantly two outtakes
― ufo, Wednesday, 29 September 2021 10:46 (two years ago) link
The slightly dissonant keyboard flourishes on last track "Look" makes me suspect that Ryan Driver is playing on that track--am a sucker for how Tamara makes use of Kieran Adams' breakbeat drum style, so that track's nicely jumping out at me at first flip-through
― If I luge, if I luge, if I luge you on the track (Craig D.), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 12:12 (two years ago) link
Great album, but I hate when we get "deluxe versions" of an album 7-8 months after the original release.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 13:30 (two years ago) link
100% agree. Jessie Ware doing this for her last few, when I've bought cds on original release, has been frustrating. Prefer what beabadoobee did, releasing the Our Extended Play EP to follow her last album.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 14:56 (two years ago) link
Seems a bit weird in the streaming age... I mean, the deluxe version will supposedly be available for "free" on Spotify?
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 29 September 2021 15:01 (two years ago) link
At least that was the case with Waxahatchee
new album out tomorrow! 'how is it that i should look at the stars'
https://theweatherstation.bandcamp.com/album/how-is-it-that-i-should-look-at-the-stars
video for the first single:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKj6riuag5M
― donna rouge, Thursday, 3 March 2022 23:27 (two years ago) link
wow a whole album so soon, awesome
― corrs unplugged, Friday, 4 March 2022 10:45 (two years ago) link
guess it's more sparse, but sounds great on first listen
― corrs unplugged, Friday, 4 March 2022 10:51 (two years ago) link
think it was written/recorded around the same time as ignorance, just it's a set of much more stripped down material
― ufo, Friday, 4 March 2022 12:05 (two years ago) link