Just last year, Tamara Lindeman released Ignorance, her fifth album as the Weather Station and Exclaim!'s No. 2 album of 2021. The record represented a major creative overhaul for the Weather Station, and it seems there's more that Lindeman wants to tell from that period.
Today, Lindeman has shared a new single and announced How Is It That I Should Look at the Stars, a "companion piece" to Ignorance that's arriving March 4 on Next Door Records.
Lindeman recorded How Is It That I Should Look at the Stars in just three days, capturing its percussion-less ballads live on the floor at Toronto's Canterbury Music Studios. In a statement about the album, Lindeman said:
When I wrote Ignorance, it was a time of intense creativity, and I wrote more songs than I ever had in my life. The songs destined to be on the album were clear from the beginning, but as I continued down my writing path, songs kept appearing that had no place on the album I envisioned.
Songs that were simple, pure; almost naive. Songs that spoke to many of the same questions and realities as Ignorance, but in a more internal, thoughtful way. So I began to envision How Is It That I Should Look at the Stars, a quiet, strange album of ballads. I imagined it not as a follow-up to Ignorance, but rather as a companion piece; the moon to its sun.
The record was co-produced with Jean Martin and features improvised contributions from Christine Bougie on guitar and lap steel, Karen Ng on saxophone and clarinet, Ben Whiteley on upright bass, Ryan Driver on piano, flute, and vocals, and Tania Gill on wurlitzer, rhodes and pianet.
Alongside the album's announcement, Lindeman has shared first single "Endless Time," which comes attached to a self-directed video. About the new single, Lindeman said:
In Toronto, I live in a world of overwhelming abundance; fruits and fresh vegetables flown in year round from Chile, California, Malaysia. Standing outside a neighbourhood fruit stand one day, I found myself wondering how I would look back on this time from the future; if I would someday remember it as a time of abundance and wealth I did not fully comprehend at the time, and I wondered how it would feel to stand at that threshold of change. I wondered too if we were not already there.
The song was written long before the pandemic, but when we recorded it, on March 11, 2020, it began to feel eerily prescient. The day it was recorded truly was the end of an endless time, and as ever, I don't know how the song knew. Somehow, the music captures that instability; it is ungrounded and diaphanous, it floats and drifts.
Check out the video for "Endless Time" and see the How Is It That I Should Look at the Stars tracklist below.
How Is It That I Should Look at the Stars:
1. Marsh
2. Endless Time
3. Taught
4. Ignorance
5. To Talk About
6. Stars
7. Song
8. Sway
9. Sleight of Hand
10. Loving You
Pre-order How Is It That I Should Look at the Stars.
Today, Lindeman has shared a new single and announced How Is It That I Should Look at the Stars, a "companion piece" to Ignorance that's arriving March 4 on Next Door Records.
Lindeman recorded How Is It That I Should Look at the Stars in just three days, capturing its percussion-less ballads live on the floor at Toronto's Canterbury Music Studios. In a statement about the album, Lindeman said:
When I wrote Ignorance, it was a time of intense creativity, and I wrote more songs than I ever had in my life. The songs destined to be on the album were clear from the beginning, but as I continued down my writing path, songs kept appearing that had no place on the album I envisioned.
Songs that were simple, pure; almost naive. Songs that spoke to many of the same questions and realities as Ignorance, but in a more internal, thoughtful way. So I began to envision How Is It That I Should Look at the Stars, a quiet, strange album of ballads. I imagined it not as a follow-up to Ignorance, but rather as a companion piece; the moon to its sun.
The record was co-produced with Jean Martin and features improvised contributions from Christine Bougie on guitar and lap steel, Karen Ng on saxophone and clarinet, Ben Whiteley on upright bass, Ryan Driver on piano, flute, and vocals, and Tania Gill on wurlitzer, rhodes and pianet.
Alongside the album's announcement, Lindeman has shared first single "Endless Time," which comes attached to a self-directed video. About the new single, Lindeman said:
In Toronto, I live in a world of overwhelming abundance; fruits and fresh vegetables flown in year round from Chile, California, Malaysia. Standing outside a neighbourhood fruit stand one day, I found myself wondering how I would look back on this time from the future; if I would someday remember it as a time of abundance and wealth I did not fully comprehend at the time, and I wondered how it would feel to stand at that threshold of change. I wondered too if we were not already there.
The song was written long before the pandemic, but when we recorded it, on March 11, 2020, it began to feel eerily prescient. The day it was recorded truly was the end of an endless time, and as ever, I don't know how the song knew. Somehow, the music captures that instability; it is ungrounded and diaphanous, it floats and drifts.
Check out the video for "Endless Time" and see the How Is It That I Should Look at the Stars tracklist below.
How Is It That I Should Look at the Stars:
1. Marsh
2. Endless Time
3. Taught
4. Ignorance
5. To Talk About
6. Stars
7. Song
8. Sway
9. Sleight of Hand
10. Loving You
Pre-order How Is It That I Should Look at the Stars.
