NEWS: The Weather Station embarks on East Coast tour in support of All Of It Was Mine

The Weather Station embarks on an East Coast tour this October in support of her highly acclaimed new album, All of it Was Mine (You've Changed Records). Dates are as follows:

October 08 - Sackville, NB - George's Roadhouse
October 09 - Halifax, NS - The Khyber
October 12 - Cornerbrook, NL - Backlot
October 16 - Port Rexton, NL - Two Whales
October 20 - Riverport, NS - Confidence Lodge
October 22 - Halifax, NS - The Company House (Halifax Pop Explosion)
October 23 - Charlottetown, PE - Baba's Lounge
October 24 - Moncton, NB - Plan B
October 26 - Sherbrooke, QC - La Petite Boite Noire


The Weather Station - Everything I Saw by Noisography

 At first glance, the second record by The Weather Station is a humble thing, gentle, warm. The elements are simple, finger-picked acoustics and three part harmonies, an unexpected snare drum, a stray electric guitar – the very opposite of songwriter Tamara Lindeman’s first record, the painstakingly arranged and darkly expansive The Line. And yet, All of it Was Mine is a record that appeared stubbornly.

She’d entered a studio, attempting a follow-up but was getting nowhere. Trying to do too much to the songs, trying to make them into something they weren’t. So, she took up Daniel Romano on his long-standing offer to record a few demos at his home studio in Welland, ON. The two played the songs one by one, arranging on the spot, recording with a couple of ribbon mics to a digital 8 track. From time to time, the incomparable Misha Bower (Tamara’s band-mate in the Bruce Peninsula) came downstairs to sing harmonies.

Freed of expectation and ambition, safe in the hands of friends, the songs revealed themselves as folk songs, and it started to come easy. A good record is all timing, and this one was caught at just the right moment – the moment when a musician sets aside old habits and expectations, strips away the excess and finally just gets to the guts of the matter. In a matter of days, studio album abandoned, there was the record.

Lindeman’s lyrics stay close to home, detailing a creaking house in disrepair, a quiet side street, a seemingly idyllic summer; but also the heartache that comes in slyly, inexorably, as it always does, softly, like the moths that attack the flour. It’s beautiful, certainly, unabashedly so, but unsettled, all creeping nature, dirt and sweetness, accusation and acceptance. Short, small in scope, and curiously complete. Ten songs doing nothing more than speaking for themselves, quietly perhaps, but with grace, not one word out of place.