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Weather Station, the brainchild of Toronto's singer-songwriter Tamara Lindeman,
debuted with the EP East (2008).
She stuck to an acoustic folkish sound on
The Line (2009), containing the
atmospheric and almost oneiric hymn Coming into Town, the
sweetly honky-tonking East and the hypnotic piano lullaby Caterwhaul
All of It Was Mine (2011), with Daniel Romano on guitar,
and the EP Duets #1-3 (2013), containing the dejected and minimal
Mule in the Flowers, a duet with Baby Eagle, as well as the country duet with Daniel Romano Can You See Her in my Eyes.
Her songs, delivered in a warm and melismatic falsetto, and accompanied with little more than finger-picked guitar, piano and banjo were meant to touch the heart, and often succeeded.
Not much changed on the EP What Am I Going to Do with Everything I Know (2014)
and the album Loyalty (2015), just a bit more rhythm in
Way it is Way it could be, a ghostly howl in Tapes,
and deeply pensive, quasi-dreamy, singing in I Mined;
but
The Weather Station (2017) incorporated string arrangements
(best in You and I)
and began a whole new career. The
martial guitar tempo of Free,
the country-rock romp of Thirty and the
pow-wow drumming of Impossible (perhaps the standout) confirmed
the transition to a more lively sound, but couldn't redeem a generally inferior
repertory.
Ignorance (2021) went decisively for lush arrangements and
featured a veritable chamber ensemble.
Robber boasts jazzy piano, horns and percussion, disco strings, syncopated drumming around silky bluesy female crooning, almost like
an ethereal version of
Van Morrison.
Atlantic blends breathy singing, busy drumming and aquatic electronics.
The elegantly floating Parking Lot,
the solemn
Kate Bush-ian elegy Trust and the
melancholy synth-pop of Tried to Tell You at least do justice to her
vocal skills,
but the lame and trivial disco-pop with pulsing beat of Loss and Heart are simply tedious.
Again, the main problem seems to be a lack of memorable songs, no matter how
arranged.
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