An artist who always sparks our inter­est is Cana­di­an singer song­writer Tama­ra Lin­de­man, cre­ator of The Weath­er Sta­tion. She pens thought­ful and unusu­al com­po­si­tions, often with warm jazz-infused instru­men­ta­tion, and her last two albums, Igno­rance and Human­hood, are stag­ger­ing­ly beau­ti­ful. So we are delight­ed to have two new works to lis­ten to, songs that she record­ed dur­ing the Human­hood ses­sions that did­n’t make it onto the album. These two tracks most def­i­nite­ly deserve to see the light of day.

These are uptem­po num­ber Air­port and the lush and evoca­tive Only The Truth. Human­hood was released ear­li­er this year on Fat Pos­sum Records.

Says Tama­ra “There were so many strong songs I left off Human­hood because the album had such a nar­ra­tive arc to adhere to. Air­port was one of them that I’m glad to release now. I’ve always hat­ed air­ports; I find them so dehu­man­is­ing. This song tells a sto­ry of a per­son try­ing to mir­ror what is around them; that sort of shut­ting down, not car­ing, act­ing like you don’t care even when you real­ly do. At the heart of it though is, of course, an intense long­ing, and a hope for some­thing alive that feels like it can’t be.”

Tama­ra describes Only The Truth as “one of my favourite songs from Human­hood and just didn’t make the track­list at the very last moment, but it feels so rel­e­vant and con­nect­ed with the record. It inter­sects with Neon Signs, it expands on the same idea; that the truth is this sort of lumpen, com­pli­cat­ed, organ­ic thing. False­hoods and lies glim­mer, reach towards you, need you; but the truth ‘doesn’t care if you care / all it ever is is there.’” 

The Human­hood Tour con­tin­ues in UK & Europe next month with a Lon­don show on 21st Novem­ber at EartH The­atre with a string quar­tet. Sup­port is Lucy Gooch. Tick­ets here
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