The Weather Station: “Body Moves”

Lyrics like blank verse. Tamara Lindeman of The Weather Station draws up the lyrics of our highlighted track “Body Moves” in one big fat paragraph at the Bandcamp.

Maybe that’s just how the text happened to get uploaded on one site. But I prefer to read too deeply into the situation and conclude that the lack of parsing between different lines and stanzas is an artistic choice with distinctive results that speak to the particular character, essence, and quality of the work.

Without the constant and clearly demarcated rhymes and emphatic landing spots of your average pop delivery, I can’t imagine this song ever gets sung the same way twice. There’s a jazzy love for improv here. Lindeman is mostly freed up to slather her voice like fancy mustard over the backing tracks as she likes, soaking her syllables into the porous surface of alt pop construction.

It’s good to be free, but the freedom can feel a bit shaggy and directionless at times. Off Humanhood. Via Fat Possum Records.

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