THE WEATHER STATION
How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars
FAT POSSUM
10/10
EARLY last year, Tamara Lindeman released Ignorance, her fifth album as The Weather Station, and the most celebrated of her career. It was forlorn, and it was furious; a lyrically arresting, synth-rich take on man’s desecration of the natural world. Uncut named it album of the year.
At the time, Lindeman gave no hint that up her sleeve she kept a, many near-contenders for that album. But these 10 songs she regarded as too soft and too internal to stand among their fierce, percussive siblings, and so she filed them away in her notebook, under the title ‘Ballads’, and wondered how, if ever, they might take shape.
