Lindsay Reamer Natural Science

From 2019 to 2023 Lindsay Reamer worked as a field scientist. With aguitar and a bag of books in tow, she would leave her home inPhiladelphia for the postcard scenes of the American landscape togather data on visitation in National Parks. She counted cars and RVs,surveyed visitors, and made a temporary home for a few weeks at atime wherever she landed. All the while, she collected her ownobservations like specimens and slowly weaved the songs that wouldform her debut full-length, `Natural Science.'Recorded throughout 2023 by Lucas Knapp, `Natural Science' paintswith a full spectrum. Humor rubs elbows with heartbreak. Acousticguitars brush up against synthesizers, cradling Reamer as she singsabout the American Chestnut tree extinction, employee gossip at aDay's Inn, fishing beside a power plant, turf grass farms, and wakingup next to day-old take-out. The indifferent beauty of nature is heldup next to the everyday as Reamer does her very best to find cluesfor navigating the latter by musing upon both.Following the release of her self-produced EP `Lucky' (Dear LifeRecords) in 2021, Reamer assembled a band with musicians fromPhiladelphia's vibrant music community and began working her oncesolo-acoustic songs into full band arrangements. After a briefflirtation with dance music which led to 2022's viral single "TouchTank," Reamer settled into a sound that lies somewhere in the folkrock-pop matrix, explored with the humor and lightness ofsongwriters like Sheryl Crow or Melanie. Reamer reflects: "When Iheard the songs with the band, I knew it was time to make therecord. It felt like something I had been working towards my wholelife. I grew up around musicians but I never thought I was goodenough to be in a band or even to make my own music. Mygrandmother Joan gave me voice lessons after school, my mom wasan opera singer, and my dad a guitar player. But it wasn't until a fewyears ago that I realized I could do it. It didn't matter if I could shredon the guit...