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10.0
128724
10.0 |
Uncut
It is quite simply stunning. Print edition only
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8.3
128873
8.3 |
A.V. Club
Singer-songwriter Tamara Lindeman’s surprise release sounds nothing like her recent breakthrough album — but it’s just as impactful
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8.0
128811
8.0 |
Pitchfork
Performed almost entirely at the piano, the follow-up to Tamara Lindeman’s 2021 breakthrough Ignorance raises dizzying questions with sensitivity and quiet hope
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8.0
128820
8.0 |
Beats Per Minute
There’s courage here. And humility. How Is It That I Should Look at the Stars occurs as a timely reach for compassion and transcendent love – love for the wounded self and others, for the endangered world, for life in its myriad form
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8.0
128723
8.0 |
NME
A softer, more instinctive album of ballads that interacts with its predecessor, while saying something new
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8.0
128725
8.0 |
Mojo
A companion piece, maybe, but these songs can stand alone. Print edition only
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8.0
128727
8.0 |
Exclaim
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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8.0
128728
8.0 |
musicOMH
…Stars 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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8.0
128797
8.0 |
All Music
A 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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8.0
128801
8.0 |
PopMatters
On the companion piece to last year’s Ignorance, the Weather Station creates a piano-based record just as existentially anxious but anchored by quietude
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7.6
128807
7.6 |
Northern Transmissions
If you’re a fan of Tamara and The Weather Report, I think that you’ll thrill at this album’s rawness. If you’re not a fan yet, this isn’t the album to start getting to know the music
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7.0
128951
7.0 |
Vinyl Chapters
It’s a wonderful album filled with emotion and optimism, but it isn’t without its fair share of flaws
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6.5
128779
6.5 |
Spectrum Culture
The problem with See the Stars is that Lindeman’s lyrics are the only thing that really holds one’s attention throughout. If you were presented with the album, and told it wasn’t an album at all, but rather a collection of piano-centric variations on songs that would exist in a more fleshed-out form elsewhere, it would be ridiculously easy to believe it
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6.0
128726
6.0 |
American Songwriter
The hushed, intricately recorded audio makes the listener feel like the clichéd fly-on-the-wall as Lindeman and her band play music as if no one is around and the tapes aren’t running
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6.0
128809
6.0 |
The Observer
Tamara Lindeman follows up last year’s multilayered masterpiece with songs of love and existential sorrow that call to mind a fellow complex Canadian
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6.0
128799
6.0 |
The FT
The new album is a sparser companion piece to last year’s ‘Ignorance’, but is less even than its predecessor
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