ALLWEATHER GEAR

The signposts to Ignorance, read by Dorian Lynskey.

THE LINE (Self-Released, 2009)

An apprentice work pieced together over four years in between acting jobs. Lindeman was immersed in the buzzing Toronto indie scene, but this unpredictable laptop bluegrass evinces a doughty independence. “Even though it’s a very flawed record I was very proud of it because it was mine,” she says.

ALL OF IT WAS MINE (You’ve Changed, 2011)

The sleeve design makes Lindeman look like some lost contemporary of Karen Dalton and Emmylou Harris, and she sounds rather like one, too. These 28 minutes of rueful finger-picked folk, seeded with rustic imagery of milkweed and lilacs, are hold-your-breath delicate, but the songwriting is too sharp-eyed to sound precious.

LOYALTY (Paradise Of Bachelors, 2015)

Soft and spare, this two-hander with Afie Jurvanen reflects its wintry origins but not its last-minute conception, as pastoral language gives way to storytelling with a fine-nibbed precision redolent of Joni Mitchell. “It seemed to me luxury would be to be not so ashamed,” she sings on Shy Women.

THE WEATHER STATION (Paradise Of Bachelors, 2017)

Lindeman goes electric. Countryrock stunner Thirty is the pick of these anthems for introverts, with her propulsive, “super-wordy” new songwriting style augmented by amps and strings. Her examinations of relationships and societies under pressure clear the path for Ignorance.

“I was trying to overwhelm,” she says. “The train is going.”