Weather Station - Loyalty - Vinyl Record

Excess virtue can lead to danger or impose limits on practical action—a difficult lesson learned by those who have seen their youthful ideals fade. Remaining rigidly loyal to a fixed conception of identity doesn’t benefit us as adults. "Loyalty," the third and finest album from The Weather Station (and the first under Paradise of Bachelors), grapples with these complex ideas of fidelity and betrayal—toward our idealism, our understanding of character, our memories, and our relationships with family, friends, and lovers. It marks a courageous leap into new sonic and psychological territories. This evolution perfectly aligns with Toronto artist Tamara Lindeman’s renowned songwriting. Recorded during the winter of 2014 at La Frette Studios near Paris in close partnership with Afie Jurvanen (Bahamas) and Robbie Lackritz (Feist), the album distills her exquisite songwriting into eleven emotionally resonant vignettes and intimate sketches, reminiscent of fellow Canadians Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, and David Wiffen, yet distinctly her own.

A1. Way It Is, Way It Could Be 3.40 A2. Loyalty 4.00 A3. Floodplain 2.49 A4. Shy Women 2.48 A5. Personal Eclipse 3.35 A6. Life’s Work 3.30

B1. Like Sisters 4.40 B2. I Mined 4.57 B3. Tapes 4.17 B4. I Could Only Stand By 3.15 B5. At Full Height 2.22