[Replay] Reflecting Climate Grief Through Music - Tamara Lindeman of The Weather Station

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Music can help us make sense of, and deeply feel, our climate grief. Tamara Lindeman’s acclaimed album Ignorance about climate grief struck a chord with citizens and critics. Performing as The Weather Station, Lindeman’s 2021 poetic, thoughtful, and highly danceable album was named album of the year by The New Yorker and Uncut. Tamara joins Alice Irene Whittaker, the host of Reseed, for a conversation that starts with climate grief before spanning to art, selfhood, rootlessness, connection, and the heartbreaking beauty of birds.

Tamara Lindeman emerged from Toronto’s vibrant folk scene, and as The Weather Station, she has released five albums and toured extensively across Europe, the US, Canada, and Australia. She has been nominated for a Juno, a Socan Award, and shortlisted for the Polaris Prize, and garnered extensive praise from Pitchfork, The New Yorker, The Guardian, Rolling Stone and The New York Times.

Our climate change narratives are often overfull of information and despair. Our human souls also require art and stories, and our climate movement needs storytellers and artists. Art, stories and music don’t need to have the answers to the climate breakdown we are facing - there are other mediums for that, and we need to push for those answers and solutions - but art, stories, and music do have this role to play in helping us process, dream, imagine, feel, connect, release, and grieve. In a time of climate chaos, art can help us to dream of a different world while connecting with each other.
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This is part of a series of replays from the archives, in which we are sharing some of our most beloved episodes. This episode was featured on CBC's Podcast Playlist. Listen to all episodes at reseed.ca.