{"id":12214,"date":"2022-05-31T18:39:53","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T23:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/?p=12214"},"modified":"2022-11-18T10:51:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T16:51:50","slug":"album-review-weather-station-how-is-it-that-i-should-look-at-the-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2022\/05\/31\/album-review-weather-station-how-is-it-that-i-should-look-at-the-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review :: Weather Station :: How Is It That I Should Look at the Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/a0539087647_16.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/a0539087647_16.jpg 700w, https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/a0539087647_16-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/a0539087647_16-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/a0539087647_16-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>by Paul Newsom<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Toronto singer-songwriter Tamara Lindeman returns with an equally deft and personal album as her group\u2019s prior efforts. The Weather Station\u2019s previous forays into bluegrass, pop, folk and jazz shine through in turn on her newest record, whose musical tone meets the album cover\u2019s dense-dark-hopeful vibe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Global conflicts, relationship struggles and existential musings often comprise the lyrical body of any given song. As lilting keys anchor tracks, the singer drops lines like: \u201c\u2026all I can see today is black\u2026those stars don\u2019t guide you anywhere\u201d (<em>Marsh<\/em>). Lindeman\u2019s lyrics find an intriguing balance between unfiltered journal jot notes and considered poetic musings.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The support band &#8211; variously playing guitar, flute, sax, upright bass, clarinet, and more &#8211; sound lower in the mix than on previous records, yet no less important to the album. It is hard not to think of experimental jazz in the vein of Brad Mehldau when the woodwinds pipe in with critical emphasis on \u201cTaught<em>\u201d.<\/em> \u201cStars\u201d<em> <\/em>is reminiscent of fellow Canadian Stan Rogers\u2019s ballads, finding the singer proclaiming: \u201cSo overwhelmed by the beauty of the stars. How could I not be?\u201d with stoic fervour. Even at the album\u2019s most pained and lonely moments, its warm production upholds their sanctity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201c<\/em>Song\u201d finds Lindeman reflecting on songwriting itself as she considers: \u201c\u2026what I\u2019d place inside, if I could bury light, in something I could write.\u201d Not just light, but darkness, conflict, hope and pessimism ring out with startling clarity over the album\u2019s course.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>How Is It That I Should Look at the Stars? <\/em>represents a poignant and measured entry in the growing catalogue of pandemic-era \u201cpersonal\u201d records. The Weather Station\u2019s members are more than familiar with attunement to cultural moments, having focused their last effort on climate change with 2021\u2019s \u201cIgnorance.\u201d One can only hope the group stays the course with comparably astute and re-listenable entries.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For fans of: Aimee Mann, Sibylle Baier, Cassandra Jenkins, Vashti Bunyan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Paul Newsom Toronto singer-songwriter Tamara Lindeman returns with an equally deft and personal album as her group\u2019s prior efforts. The Weather Station\u2019s previous forays into bluegrass, pop, folk and jazz shine through in turn on her newest record, whose musical tone meets the album cover\u2019s dense-dark-hopeful vibe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1420,1457,1456],"class_list":["post-12214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-album-review","tag-how-is-it-that-i-should-look-at-the-stars","tag-weather-station"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12216,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12214\/revisions\/12216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}