catalogue

WEATHER STATION, THE

LOYALTY (PARADISE OF BACHELORS)

WEATHER STATION, THE - LOYALTY 83878
format:
1 LPD
release:
08.05.2015
label:
PARADISE OF BACHELORS
item ID:
83878
barcode:
0616892265849
In excess virtue lies danger, or at least limits to pragmatic action-it's a lesson hard learned by anyone disillusioned by the erosion of youthful mythologies.

Strict fealty to a fixed ideal of identity doesn't do us any favors as adults. Loyalty, the third and finest album yet by The Weather Station (and the first for Paradise of Bachelors) wrestles with these knotty notions of faithfulness/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 Toronto artist Tamara 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), the record 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.
 
  • Tracklisting
  • 1.1. WAY IT IS, WAY IT COULD BE
  • 1.2. LOYALTY
  • 1.3. FLOODPLAIN
  • 1.4. SHY WOMEN
  • 1.5. PERSONAL ECLIPSE
  • 1.6. LIFE'S WORK
  • 1.7. LIKE SISTERS
  • 1.8. I MINED
  • 1.9. TAPES
  • 1.10. I COULD ONLY STAND BY
  • 1.11. AT FULL HEIGHT