The Weather Station will release new album ‘Humanhood’ on January 17th.
The project is steered by Toronto-based Tamara Lindeman, a remarkable voice whose 2021 album ‘Ignorance’ and – 2022 accompany piece ‘How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars’ – won outstanding critical acclaim.
New album ‘Humanhood’ attempts to unpick a fraught, emotionally challenging time in Lindeman’s life, all while grappling with the possibilities of her live band. Recorded across two sessions in Autumn of 2023 at Canterbury Music Company, ‘Humanhood’ emerges in the first weeks of 2025.
Out on January 17th, the new album is led by bold, soaring single ‘Neon Signs’, with its powerful vocal and surging full-band onslaught.
The lyrics find Lindeman questioning herself – “Why can’t I get off this floor? Think straight anymore?” – all while playing with questions of perspective.
“I wrote ‘Neon Signs’ at a moment of feeling confused, upside down, at that moment when even desire falls away, and dissociation cuts you loose from a story that while wrong, still held things together,” Lindeman explains.
“The song came with multiple strands entwined; the way that something that is not true seems to have more energetic intensity than something that is, the confusion of being bombarded with advertising at a moment of climate emergency, the confusion of relationships where coercion is wrapped in the language of love. Ultimately though, isn’t it all the same feeling?”
The video is directed by Tamara Lindeman herself, flitting between different sets of eyes – tune in now.
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