Halfway through her European tour supporting Basia Bulat and Damien Jurado, and nearly a year after the release of her groundbreaking album Loyalty, Tamara Lindeman of The Weather Station is sharing an intimate behind-the-scenes look at her songwriting and creative process, touching on how personal experience, emotional ambiguity, and the influences of other artists inform her work. Thanks to Folk Radio UK for the premiere.
As we bask in the new Spring and look ahead to the oncoming Summer, we’d like call your attention to the many chances you’ll have to see some of our artist’s road-dogging it through a town near you. We’d also like to take a moment to extend our warmest thanks to The American Association of Independent Music (A2IM) for nominating us as 2016 Label of the Year. We’re blushing.
The behemoth known as SXSW is almost upon us, and several PoB artists will be joining the melee, including rare appearances by Lavender Country, both live onstage (with some special guests sitting in) and at festival world premiere screenings of the new documentary short These C*cksucking Tears. The Weather Station and Nap Eyes will also each be playing several shows.
2015 (Year of the Goat) in all its splendor and magnificence is out the door, and 2016 (Year of the Monkey) is right around the corner. Seems only appropriate to reflect on things that were, round-up some additional year end list recognition, and propel us into this next age with some upcoming tour dates.
‘Tis the season for lists; here’s a foretaste of what’s to come. The Weather Station ranks as Uncut’s overall #16, and Editor John Mulvey selects it as his #3, along with James Elkington & Nathan Salsburg at #58 and Promised Land Sound at #95. American Songwriter honors Promised Land Sound at #39 on their list.
Today is a good day. Today we’re able to release two beautiful documents of deeply personal, movingly articulated North American songwriting: The Weather Station’s Loyalty and Kenny Knight’s Crossroads, which also happen to be our first releases with our supremely supportive new distributor Secretly Canadian Distribution. This is why we do what we do.
Stream The Weather Station’s gorgeous album Loyalty via The NY Times and hear our reissue of Kenny Knight’s 1980 country-rock masterpiece Crossroads via Stereogum, a week before their May 12 release. Both records are available for purchase if you like what you hear. (You will like what you hear.) Pitchfork reviewed Loyalty, calling it “a 40-minute glimpse into a secret world.”
The Weather Station will be hitting the road in Canada and the United States this Spring and Summer, in both solo and full band incarnations. Tamara is one of the most transfixing performers we know. Don’t miss it!
The Line of Best Fit has premiered “Tapes,” one of our sentimental favorites on The Weather Station’s Loyalty: “A moving, melancholic though magnificent piece of work.” Many thanks also to Uncut for their beautiful lead review of Loyalty: “There are many wise, deceptively simple insights on this wonderful album.”
Many thanks to The Fader for premiering “Shy Women,” another stunning song from Loyalty, the forthcoming album by The Weather Station, which The Fader calls “the best folk album of the year.” Stream and pre-order herein. Also, TWS has just announced that they’ll be playing this year’s Pickathon Festival.
