Format: LP
Label: Paradise Of Bachelors PoB-19
Year: 2015
Origin: Toronto, Ontario
Genre: folk
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Value of Original Title: $25.00
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Release Type: Albums
Websites:
https://theweatherstation.bandcamp.com/album/loyalty
Playlist:
| Track Name | Length | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Way It Is, Way It Could Be | ||
| 2 | Loyalty | ||
| 3 | Floodplain | ||
| 4 | Shy Women | ||
| 5 | Personal Eclipse | ||
| 6 | Life's Work |
| Track Name | Length | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Like Sisters | ||
| 2 | I Mined | ||
| 3 | Tapes | ||
| 4 | I Could Only Stand By | ||
| 5 | At Full Height |
The Weather Station - Loyalty
The Weather Station - Loyalty
The Weather Station - Loyalty
The Weather Station - Loyalty
The Weather Station - Loyalty
Loyalty
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"The Best Folk Album Of The Year" – FADER Magazine
"She’s a singer with an unmistakable and communicative voice, able to convey hope and hurt with equal clarity" – Pitchfork
The Weather Station, the musical project of Toronto artist Tamara Lindeman, has announced a new album, entitled Loyalty. The project's first release on the Outside Music label in Canada wrestles with knotty notions of faithfulness and faithlessness to our idealism, our constructs of character, our memories, and to our family, friends, and lovers representing a bold step forward into new sonic and psychological inscapes. It's a natural progression for Lindeman's acclaimed songwriting practice.
Recorded at La Frette Studios just outside Paris in the winter of 2014, in close collaboration with Afie Jurvanen (Bahamas) and Robbie Lackritz (Feist), Loyalty crystallizes her lapidary songcraft into eleven emotionally charged vignettes and intimate portraits, redolent of fellow Canadians Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, and David Wiffen, but utterly her own. Loyalty brings a freshly unflinching self-examining gaze and emotional & musical control to The Weather Station's songs. Sonically, the record is a quietly radical statement, with certain passages achieving an eerie harmonic and rhythmic tension new to... more
released May 12, 2015
All songs written by Tamara Lindeman, SOCAN 2014. Produced by Afie Jurvanen, Robbie Lackritz, & Tamara Lindeman. Engineered by Robbie Lackritz.
Tamara Lindeman: vocals, guitars, piano, Hammon, vibraphone, banjo
Afie Jurvanen: drums, bass, guitars, piano, Rhodes, Wurlitzer
Recorded at La Frette Studios in La Frette-sur-Seine, France, February 2014, with studio assistance from Jonathan Ratovoarisoa & Nicolas Quéré. Facilitated by Olivier Bloch Lainé
Woodwinds & strings recorded by Tamara Lindeman, March 2014
Jeremy Strachan: bass clarinet, clarinet, saxophone, flute. Anthony Wallace – violin. Mixed by Jeff Zeigler at Uniform Recording. Mastered by Patrick Klem
Design & layout by Brendan Greaves, with assistance from Bridget Walsh. Cover photo by Colin Medley. Inner sleeve photography by Yuula Benivolsi. Photo retouching by Constance Mensh
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