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art and design by John Mitchell, pressed by A to Z. digital mock up of product.
Includes digital pre-order of Natural Science.
You get 2 tracks now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
shipping out on or around August 16, 2024
edition of 300
Purchasable with gift card
$20USDor more
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
art and design by John Mitchell, pressed by A to Z (digital mock up of product)
Includes digital pre-order of Natural Science.
You get 2 tracks now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
Holding your hand by the Jon Bon Jovi hologram
Driving to the coast I said ‘You can be my man’
Thinking of you as I read the inflight magazine
It says there’s a place that we can go where it never rains
Met your dad the other day, same head as you same restless legs
He asked me how I like my life and he showed me his model trains
They circled the track around the tiny town
Does this playing God thing ever get him down?
You show me it’s okay to depend on somebody
Not just okay
But necessary
Kat was trying to catch the cat that lives at the motel
With a tupperware of rotisserie chicken, you know that smell?
She ran away under the ice cream truck
To live this life she’s got to depend on luck
I was eating the continental breakfast
Listening to the front desk gossip
The housekeeper is getting married
To the Day’s Inn plumber next week
You show me it’s okay to depend on somebody
Not just okay
But necessary
All the Chestnut have disappeared
And the forest floor is taken
By invasive grasses used to pack
Porcelain when it was shipped across the Atlantic
Reading the park bench dedication
Mississippi river running under me
I get to thinking
There is the ocean and the places it used to be
Gardens on the land
Castles on the beaches
I trust my hand and
Pluck my figs and peaches
It’s what I want, it’s what I want
Low tide, smelly marsh
Near the power plant where you live
The water gets so warm you said
People come here to catch the tropical fish
I’m tiptoeing, crawling like a wild strawberry
I get to knowing
I’ve been waiting for the fruit to fall from the tree
Gardens on the land
Castles on the beaches
I trust my hand and
Pluck my figs and peaches
It’s what I want, it’s what I want
10.
Heavenly Houseboat Blues
about
From 2019 to 2023 Lindsay Reamer worked as a field scientist. With a guitar and a bag of books in tow, she would leave her home in Philadelphia for the postcard scenes of the American landscape to gather data on visitation in National Parks. She counted cars and RVs, surveyed visitors, and made a temporary home for a few weeks at a time wherever she landed. All the while, she collected her own observations like specimens and slowly weaved the songs that would form her debut full-length, ‘Natural Science.’
Recorded throughout 2023 by Lucas Knapp, ‘Natural Science’ paints with a full spectrum. Humor rubs elbows with heartbreak. Acoustic guitars brush up against synthesizers, cradling Reamer as she sings about the American Chestnut tree extinction, employee gossip at a Day’s Inn, fishing beside a power plant, turf grass farms, and waking up next to day-old take-out. The indifferent beauty of nature is held up next to the everyday as Reamer does her very best to find clues for navigating the latter by musing upon both.
Following the release of her self-produced EP ‘Lucky’ (Dear Life Records) in 2021, Reamer assembled a band with musicians from Philadelphia’s vibrant music community and began working her once solo-acoustic songs into full band arrangements. After a brief flirtation with dance music which led to 2022’s viral single “Touch Tank,” Reamer settled into a sound that lies somewhere in the folk-rock-pop matrix, explored with the humor and lightness of songwriters like Sheryl Crow or Melanie. Reamer reflects: “When I heard the songs with the band, I knew it was time to make the record. It felt like something I had been working towards my whole life. I grew up around musicians but I never thought I was good enough to be in a band or even to make my own music. My grandmother Joan gave me voice lessons after school, my mom was an opera singer, and my dad a guitar player. But it wasn’t until a few years ago that I realized I could do it. It didn’t matter if I could shred on the guitar or something. It was like some illusion shattered.”
Reamer is a sincere storyteller. The self-doubt and heartbreak expressed in songs like “Spring Song,” “Sugar,” or “Red Flowers” give way to the triumphant moments of self-acceptance and love in “Lucky,” “Necessary,” and “Figs and Peaches.” ‘Natural Science’ chronicles a path to confidence, an honest reflection of someone with the capacity to hold a deep well of emotion who also makes sure to not take it all too seriously. “Gardens on the land / Castles on the beaches / I trust my hand and / Pluck my figs and peaches,” Reamer sings, as she works to reconcile the strange difficulty we have at finding happiness despite the obvious beauty all around us.
credits
releases August 16, 2024
Lindsay Reamer - vocals, guitar, percussion
Tyler Bussey - guitars, banjo
Artie Sadtler - bass
Lucas Knapp - synthesizers, percussion
Juliette Rando - drums
Will Henriksen - fiddle
Eliza Niemi - cello
Victoria Rose - vocals (track 6)
Michael Cormier-O’Leary - drums (track 10)
Peter Gill - guitar (track 10)
Frank Meadows - bass (track 10)
Jon Samuels - vocals (track 10)
Produced, Mixed, and Engineered by Lucas Knapp in Philadelphia
Co-produced by Lindsay Reamer
Mastered by Heather Jones
All songs written by Lindsay Reamer (BMI), except Heavenly Houseboat Blues written by Townes Van Zandt and Susanna Clark
Special thanks to Micah Dornfield, Peter Gill, and Stevie
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