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In times when you can go from TikTok to Top 10 in the tap of a screen, it’s a miracle just how under the radar The Weather Station have flown since their beginnings in the early 2000s. Yes, those in whatever “the know” means these days have touted Toronto-based songwriter Tamara Lindeman and high review scores have duly followed. Yet whether it was the soul deep heartache, the lyrical nature rambles, the oh-so understated delivery or whether we had just had enough folk at the time, it didn’t quite break through. A flurry of releases – What Am I Going to Do With Everything I Know EP (2014), Loyalty (2015), The Weather Station (2017) – picked up the pace but it was only regular watchers who saw the increasingly not-so-quiet evolution that was going on as folk musings gently gave way to a more forthright approach. That 2017 self-titled album was Lindeman’s turning-point but, while the guitars had been cranked up, still those Joni Mitchell-like v
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The secret life of lyrics 21 December 2020 - 10:26 By
Published in the Sunday Times (20/12/2020)
To say that Dolly Parton is a legend is a bit of a euphemism. The icon has been all over the news lately because earlier this year she contributed $1m (about R15m) to coronavirus research, which helped produce the Moderna vaccine. But this is just some of the philanthropic work she does. Since 1995, as a tribute to her father, Parton has worked to improve literacy via her Imagination Library project. This started off in her home town of Tennessee, where a free book was given to children once a month from the time they were born until they headed off to school. The project has since gone global and has donated over 100-million books.
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The first twenty years of the Avalanches’ careers were filled with a measly two records; yet, those two records managed to hit some of the highest heights ever seen in music, period. Their debut album,
Since I Left You (2000), is still the greatest plunderphonics feat ever accomplished, filling one hour with tropical, soulful greatness, and creating unique, storyful environments, all with just the work of other people. Their much-awaited follow-up,
Wildflower (2016), modernized some elements, including a Danny Brown feature, and much newer samples, like that of Queens of the Stone Age, but managed to create just-as-unique environments with just-as-impressive tools. Despite the intense success and cult following the group has gathered with those two first two releases, this time they came with a new, less sample-heavy approach in order to experiment with their own sound, come back sooner, and simply start with a clean slate. And even after selling almost all of the 7,00