With the release of her latest album Humanhood, Canadian singer-songwriter Tamara Lindeman - a.k.a. the Weather Station - reflects on the pressure to succeed in an ever-evolving industry and why she’s in a ‘better place’
Singer/songwriter Tamara Lindeman of The Weather Station released her first album in 2009, which seems like an awfully long time ago in the rapidly evolving music business., it’s about community as much as anything else. “We all just sat there just listening to a song being sung,” Tamara Lindeman intones in a breathy, dusky voice. “A simple recipe, this medicine really. … Like some old wives’ tale nobody tells you about, just this thing that usually works – somehow.
The goalposts shift. Record sales, you say? Radio? Okay, boomer. Positive album reviews? Passé. Rolling Stone magazine and Pitchfork have lost cultural relevance. A late-night television spot on one of the major U.S. networks used to be a benchmark achievement, but viewership is plummeting. The turntable hooked up to an old Marantz receiver represents a bygone analog, flesh-and-blood era, when radio programmers and record-label bosses held sway. Today, the gatekeepers are machines.
“We thought it was an interesting moment to be involved with Tamara,” he says from London, England. “It felt like she was just coming into a creative peak, and it was a nice time to be stepping in with an artist who quite clearly is a career artist.”
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