Reviews / / 03 · 02 · 2021
The Weather Station’s new album, Ignorance , willfully constructs a new negotiating power of heart and time in its 10 tracks.
Toronto songwriter Tamara Lindeman beautifully offers musical arrangements that once again reinvent the tonality of The Weather Station. Since their last album in 2017, there is a new urgency in their overall rhythm that feels impactful, but still centres at the emotional. The methodical drumlines and pseudo pop melodies build throughout, but the music remains positioned in their folk tradition.
The disco beat precision on tracks like Parking Lot is impossible to overlook; it captures this utterly brilliant juxtaposition of joy and sadness. Lindeman constructs her lyrics with a tenderness and a questioning that bleeds beyond romance, she quakes and unravels a seemingly metaphysical darkness to the listener.
16 Albums That Could Save 2021 The year s essential releases.
Clash entered 2021 with high hopes - after all, we made it through the chaos of the previous 12 months, right?
Yet the opening week of this New Year has already been tarnished by a Far Right insurrection in the States and yet more appalling pandemic figures here in the UK.
Music takes a much more important role in our lives during these fraught times, becoming a place of solace and inspiration.
Here s 16 albums that could yet save 2021.
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Lana Del Rey â Chemtrails Over The Country Club
Lana Del Rey is a polarising artist. Her music either makes you think she is the second coming of pop or itâs another case of the Empressesâ New Clothes. Her last studio album, âNorman Fucking Rockwell!â, was a lauded as a career high. Last yearâs poetry book / spoken word album âViolet Bent Backwardsâ was the album we always needed from Del Rey but didnât realise
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Nils Frahm continuously creates new ultra visceral soundscapes that beckon transient modalities. His consistent yet dynamic span of remarkable work places him as one of the leading innovators in ambient, classic and electronic genres. He has a bold audacity in his rhythmic pairings, like in his older piano works that evoke such depthful emotive expressions, it almost feels as if Frahm is creating from some distant planet.
His new live album âTripping With Nils Frahmâ follows suit with a methodical cadence that bleeds seamlessly through an orchestral opening into a deep electronic dive with echoing synths and pulsating beats. The acoustics of the performance venue, Funkhaus Berlin, which is where he began his 2018 tour for his studio album âAll Melodyâ, create an impeccably balanced and rich sound throughout the album. Â