- Record Label: Fat Possum Records
- Release Date: Mar 4, 2022
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UncutMar 1, 2022It is quite simply stunning. [Apr 2022, p.30]
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Mar 7, 2022Given the deeply vulnerable quality of all the tracks on How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars, however, Lindeman’s instincts to allow them to breathe—recording them as simply as possible in an improvisational way—reveals a different facet of her songcraft, one that’s just as accomplished as the arguably more accessible sound of Ignorance.
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Mar 31, 2022The recording’s sessions were done in a few days, and the final product retains a fetching immediacy and intimacy. A fundamental lightness of affect pervades the recording, even when it delves into heavy or sad topics.
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Mar 7, 2022While much of Lindeman’s recent work spotlights her knack for lush arrangements and declarative statements, How Is It That I Should Look at the Stars accentuates her nuanced artistry, including her gift for vocal and sonic restraint and lyrical precision.
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Mar 7, 2022The songs, performed almost entirely on the piano, predicate a world undergoing permanent, devastating changes, but they float with delicate sensitivity. They add more nuance to a body of work that already teems with vivid detail.
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Mar 4, 2022While How Is It can easily stand on its own, its greatest qualities shine better when compared to its predecessor.
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Mar 4, 2022A worthy follow-up to Ignorance and an accomplished work in its own right, How Is It That I Should Look at the Stars makes the most of Lindeman's softly insightful powers.
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Mar 4, 2022The real pleasure of the record is hearing how Lindemann and her accompaniment shape each song around those musings.
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Mar 2, 2022Stars is simply a wonderful work by a wonderful artist, which can be enjoyed with or without the contextual groundwork of its sister album. Enjoy liberally and often.
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MojoMar 1, 2022A companion piece, maybe, but these songs can stand alone. [Apr 2022, p.84]
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Mar 1, 2022Just because How Is It That I Should Look at the Stars is unadorned doesn't mean it feels unfinished. By design, these songs are understated but Lindeman's voice is so strong and incredibly beautiful that what she gives you is fulsome. Paired with the album's multitudinous lyrical details, Lindeman delicately succeeds in fitting the world into her songs.
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Mar 1, 2022Far from just leftovers, the second excellent album to come out of this rich period proves that the well runs deep in Tamara Lindeman’s imperial phase.
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Mar 7, 2022As opposed to the rich, twisted dreamscape of Ignorance, Stars is a record of dense and oblique beauty.
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Mar 7, 2022These songs about love and existential sorrow feel purposely airy and unanchored – there’s no percussion – mirroring the psychological freefall of recent times. Ironically, though, they firm up the parallels between Lindeman and fellow complex Canadian, Joni Mitchell.
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Mar 1, 2022There aren’t any catchy melodies, the song structures are loose, often amorphous with a stream of consciousness flow, and the muted ambiance of the 32 minute, live in the studio set isn’t for everyone. ... Lindeman and her band play music as if no one is around and the tapes aren’t running. That’s a difficult task, but one this album accomplishes with class and style and an honest intimacy impossible to dismiss.
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