Weiler’s last record was called Fly Me Back, but she’s flown away instead. A highlight of the local folk scene throughout the late nineties (and winner of three Minnesota Music Awards), Weiler now lives in Portland, Oregon, where she’s just finished her fourth studio album, Cold Weather, out this month. (And it’s nice to see some cold weather we actually looked forward to.) Weiler never fails to bring style and comforting originality to her songs, and performing live, she has a captivating intimacy. You find yourself wanting to call her by her first name and ask her to hang out with you and your friends. Her new album is as insightful as we’d hoped it would be. She’s showing a new, darker side to her songwriting, as on the record’s opening song “Faucet.” And “Medicine” and “Christmas Sweater,” done in Weiler’s typically low-key fashion, make us want to sit back, relax, and press repeat.
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