All Of It Was Mine
The Weather Station
You’ve Changed
Records.
August was turning
over when All Of It Was Mine arrived in my mailbox. The evenings were finally
cooling down and I’d welcomed it in to flutter the windowsill pages of the SCQ
office. I was due to marry in a month – our apartment was piled with diagrams
of tables, waiting envelopes, and empty formal wear – but Tamara Lindeman kept
me calm. As I escaped into the office to listen to music by the glow of a faint
lamp, it was relieving to hear Lindeman absorbing the silence of her open
kitchen (on ‘Came So Easy’) or yearning for connection over telephone lines
(‘Running Around Asking’). I was basking in solitude, hers and mine.
The first night I
heard All Of It Was Mine, I probably played the whole thing through at least
four times. It was easy, in part because the recording’s only half an hour long,
but mostly on account of its comforting eloquence. Like an autumnal blanket or
a bedroom corner one flocks to after hard days, All Of It Was Mine puts all of
the daily wrestling we endure into serene perspective. “It was hard but I found
my place,” Lindeman repeats over the crashing ‘Nobody’ and it’s a cathartic
refrain she has truly earned.
1 comment:
Another great release from You've Changed Records. Like Daniel Romano it has a haunting quality. On the list!
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