THE WEATHER STATION RELEASES “WINDOW” FROM UPCOMING LP, ANNOUNCES NEW TOUR DATES

THE WEATHER STATION’S NEW LP, HUMANHOOD, OUT JANUARY 17, 2025 VIA NEXT DOOR RECORDS

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NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES BEGIN MARCH 27, 2025 - FULL DATES BELOW

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“‘Neon Signs’ unfurls enchantingly… Lindeman’s expressive soprano remains the centerpiece as she sings about feeling lost and conflicted; yet somehow 'Neon Signs' manages to serve as a warm, blossoming oasis.” — Stereogum, #1 Song of the Week

"Even when things feel heavy, the Weather Station arrives as a balm, shining like a lighthouse in a devastating seastorm." — Uproxx

"Tamara Lindeman ponders disillusionment, a transactional culture, lies and the persistence of desire in 'Neon Signs' . . . while her band gradually coalesces around her, gathering to propel her through her misgivings and melting away when it can’t." — New York Times

“['Neon Signs’] sounds like everything you could ever want . . . There’s a slight edge of pop lingering beneath [Lindeman], as the beat throbs like a siren asking you, slowly and quietly, to dance and keep going.” — Paste, The Best Songs of October 2024

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The Weather Station — the project of Toronto-based Tamara Lindeman — recently announced Humanhood, her new album out January 17 via Next Door Records. Today, she presents the climactic new single/video “Window,” which follows the “sleek and driving” (Aquarium Drunkard) “Neon Signs,” and announces a North American Tour, on sale November 22 at 10am local time. “Window” is an anthem of escape. The slashing guitar and spiraling electronics conjure a panic attack, the mind demanding answers. “I can’t explain right now,” she sings during one of the album’s most gripping moments, “just that I’m leaving.” The song’s video, directed by Philippe Léonard, presents Lindeman’s performance of the song projected out the window of a moving van onto trees, forest and passing signs, recalling the rippling fabric motif of the Humanhood album art. Lindeman describes the video as being “filmed on the island of Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs, Quebec late one night with battery powered projector, with many attempts to get that one perfect take. Philippe’s note to me was ‘you are the window.’”

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Humanhood is the weirdest Weather Station record yet - the most visceral.  It’s also the strongest, the most cinematic, the most complete as an evocation of an inner landscape.  Each song mirrors, sonically and musically, the state of mind described in the lyric; moving from distant to claustrophobic, overwhelming to beautiful. Listened to from front to back, the album transcribes a journey from dissociation back towards connection; a journey echoed in form, in sound, and lyric - and in the making of the record itself. 

The word ‘humanhood’ is not a word one hears often, though it is cited in the Oxford English Dictionary as a single word which covers “the state and condition of being human”. Against the backdrop of generative AI, of the climate crisis, of the increasing digitization of the world, Lindeman says she felt “an urgency to shine some light on this word, this idea of humanness.” The rippling fabric of the cover is intentional; so is the scrawled text, the gritty synth textures. At the heart of the record is a very real attempt to reckon with what it means to be embodied, to be imperfect, to be “carrying this humanhood / ungracefully.”  

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Recorded in Toronto in late 2023, Lindeman and co-producer Marcus Paquin combined drummer Kieran Adams, percussionist Philippe Melanson, and bassist Ben Whiteley, the powerhouse rhythm section from Ignorance, with new music improvisers Karen Ng and Ben Boye. In the overdubs, we find revered folk interpreter Sam Amidon squaring off against ambient artist Joseph Shabason, and British fingerstyle guitarist James Elkington on lead.  

Mixed in Los Angeles by Joseph Lorge, it’s a record of intense details; piano notes disintegrating into static, fiddle materializing out of a cloud of cymbals. Clear, powerful pop songs, some of the most satisfying Lindeman has ever written; fade into view or arrive all of a sudden; before abrupt turns, tonal shifts, acid wash synth fadeouts which dissolve into interstitial pieces that carry the listener from song to song. Radiant and propulsive, discursive and strange, Humanhood is the most ambitious Weather Station album to date.

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THE WEATHER STATION TOUR DATES
Sat. Jan. 18 - Birmingham, UK @ HMV Birmingham - record store performance
Sun. Jan. 19 - Bristol, UK @  RT Bristol - Q&A & record store performance
Mon. Jan. 20 - Liverpool, UK @ RT Liverpool - record store performance
Tue. Jan. 21 - Leeds, UK @ Jumbo Leeds - record store performance
Wed. Jan. 22 - Nottingham, UK @ RT Nottingham - record store performance
Thu. Jan. 23 - London, UK @ Rough Trade East - record store performance
Wed. Feb. 26 - Hamburg, DE @ Nochtspeicher
Thu. Feb. 27 - Copenhagen, DK @ DR Studie 2
Fri. Feb. 28 - Berlin, DE @ Silent Green
Sun. Mar. 2 - Amsterdam, NL @ Tolhuistuin
Mon. Mar. 3 - Brussels, BE @ Botanique / Museum
Tue. Mar. 4 - Paris, FR @ Point Ephemere
Thu. Mar. 6 - Brighton, UK @ CHALK
Fri. Mar. 7 - Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club
Sat. Mar. 8 - Dublin, IE @ Button Factory
Mon. Mar. 10 - Glasgow, UK @ Saint Luke’s
Tue. Mar. 11 - Manchester, UK @ Band On The Wall
Wed. Mar. 12 - Bristol, UK @ The Fleece
Thu. Mar. 13 - London, UK @ Islington Assembly Hall
Thu. Mar. 27 - Montreal, QC @ Beanfield Theatre
Fri. Mar. 28 - Boston, MA @ Sinclair
Sat. Mar. 29 - Woodstock, NY @ Levon Helm Studios
Sun. Mar. 30 - Northampton, MA @ Iron Horse Music Hall
Tue. Apr. 1 - New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
Wed. Apr. 2 - Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Fri. Apr. 4 - Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts
Sat. Apr. 5 - Washington, DC @ The Atlantis
Sun. Apr. 6 - Durham, NC @ Motorco
Mon. Apr. 7 - Asheville, NC @ The Grey Eagle
Tue. Apr. 8 - Nashville, TN @ The Basement East
Thu. Apr. 10 - Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall
Fri. Apr. 11 - St. Paul, MN @ Turf Club
Sat. Apr. 12 - Iowa City, IA @ Hancher
Sun. Apr. 13 - Kalamazoo, MI @ Bell’s Eccentric Cafe - Back Room
Thu. May 8 - Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom
Sat. May 10 - San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
Mon. May 12 - Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
Tue. May 13 - Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
Thu. May 15 - Victoria, BC @ Hollywood Theatre
Fri. May 16 - Vancouver, BC @ Capital Ballroom
Sat. May 17 - Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile
Thu. June 5 - Ottawa, ON @ National Arts Centre
Fri. June 6 - Toronto, ON @ Masonic Temple - The Concert Hall

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HUMANHOOD TRACKLIST
1. Descent  
2. Neon Signs
3. Mirror
4. Window
5. Passage
6. Body Moves
7. Ribbon
8. Fleuve
9. Humanhood
10. Irreversible Damage
11. Lonely
12. Aurora
13. Sewing

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THE WEATHER STATION ANNOUNCES NEW LP, SHARES NEW VIDEO FOR “NEON SIGNS”

THE WEATHER STATION ANNOUNCES NEW LP, HUMANHOOD, OUT JANUARY 17, 2025 VIA NEXT DOOR RECORDS

WATCH / SHARE “NEON SIGNS” HERE
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The Weather Station — the project of Toronto-based Tamara Lindeman — announces her return with Humanhood, out January 17, 2025 via Next Door Records, and releases lead single/video, “Neon Signs.” Humanhood, the most arresting album Lindeman has ever made as The Weather Station, follows 2021’s Ignorance, “an invigorating and poignant chapter in an already impressive career” (Stereogum). It was written during one of the most difficult periods of Lindeman’s life and rendered with a rock band with improvisational chops just as she began to recover by reckoning with a complicated truth: Sometimes, life simply tries to dismantle us, no matter how good everything may seem, and we must accept that in order to survive.

From the outside, 2022 likely appeared a year of glory for Lindeman. Ignorance, in which her “shape-shifting avant-folk [reached] a kind of apex, as she sings coolly about climate grief, love, lust, healing, and the upheaval of self-discovery” (New Yorker), was one of that year’s highest praised records. It was a time of touring, travel, and activism alongside Ignorance’s more austere companion, How Is It That I Should Look at the Stars. But at an ostensible new professional peak, she was also struggling with a mental health crisis.  Working through a crisis of meaning, she wrote from within the confusion of the experience to create the songs that would ultimately become Humanhood, a narrative album that, listened to front to back, transcribes the journey from dissociation back towards connection.  

It takes only 10 seconds for Lindeman to pull us to the floor on “Neon Signs”, the opening song on Humanhood. ‘I’ve gotten used to feeling like I’m crazy—or just lazy,’ she sings, her voice at once a soft whisper to a confidant and a full-throated confession to a crowd. ‘Why can’t I get off this floor? Think straight anymore?’ she sings of our true modern malaise, that unbound sense of not knowing how or what it is we’re supposed to contribute to this fractious world, or if we even have the energy or will to try. 

“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 “Neon Signs” video, directed by Lindeman, is a journey through different sets of eyes, perpetually shifting perspectives between people and objects.

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MORE ABOUT HUMANHOOD
Humanhood was recorded over two sessions in fall of 2023 at Canterbury Music Company with drummer Kieran Adams, keyboardist Ben Boye, percussionist Philippe Melanson, reed-and-wind specialist Karen Ng, and bassist Ben Whiteley. The songs were left open;  Lindeman and co-producer Marcus Paquin wanted to hear the sudden sparks made by these new encounters, to witness everyone react in real-time to the songs and sketches she supplied.  They all dropped into the fugue, shaping the hazy unease that is so endemic these days into tangible sound. Other friends eventually added their own pieces, like old-time updater Sam Amidon, ace guitarist James Elkington, and textural magus Joseph Shabason. In the final stage, mixer Joseph Lorge helped make sense of these musical webs, and the album was crafted into a near continuous piece of music, with interstitial instrumentals fading into and out of songs. Textures repeatedly shift between organic and synthetic; synths merging with sax, electronic drums shifting into banjo, as songs coalesce and then disintegrate in a direct echo of the emotional experiences that inspired them. 

Much of Humanhood is a riveting and real document of what it means to be lost, to be hamstrung by confusion, unease, and grief for a period so long you begin to wonder if there is an end. As with Ignorance, the first person lyrics point to a wider resonance; we’re all dealing with ourselves through climate disaster, as the world totters near a breaking point, and none of it is easy or precedented. On previous albums, Lindeman mostly wrote about her past, turning backwards to gain perspective. But for Humanhood, she wrote from the present as she tried to work through it. Humanhood, then, radiates with new urgency—and emerges as a sort of tether, offered up here for anyone else feeling disconnected from the vertiginous reality of right now.

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HUMANHOOD TRACKLIST
1. Descent  
2. Neon Signs
3. Mirror
4. Window
5. Passage
6. Body Moves
7. Ribbon
8. Fleuve
9. Humanhood
10. Irreversible Damage
11. Lonely
12. Aurora
13. Sewing

THE WEATHER STATION TOUR DATES
Wed. Feb. 26 - Hamburg, DE @ Nochtspeicher
Thu. Feb. 27 - Copenhagen, DK @ DR Studie 2
Fri. Feb. 28 - Berlin, DE @ Silent Green
Sun. Mar. 2 - Amsterdam, NL @ Tolhuistuin
Mon. Mar. 3 - Brussels, BE @ Botanique / Museum
Tue. Mar. 4 - Paris, FR @ Point Ephemere
Thu. Mar. 6 - Brighton, UK @ CHALK
Fri. Mar. 7 - Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club
Sat. Mar. 8 - Dublin, IE @ Button Factory
Mon. Mar. 10 - Glasgow, UK @ Saint Luke’s
Tue. Mar. 11 - Manchester, UK @ Band On The Wall
Wed. Mar. 12 - Bristol, UK @ The Fleece
Thu. Mar. 13 - London, UK @ Islington Assembly Hall

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THE WEATHER STATION ANNOUNCE TORONTO RESIDENCY, ISSUE THE LINE ON LIMITED EDITION VINYL

THE WEATHER STATION TO PLAY HOMETOWN RESIDENCY AT TORONTO’S GREAT HALL THIS DECEMBER 11-13. THREE NIGHTS, EACH SHOWCASING TWO ALBUMS FROM THE WEATHER STATION’S BACK CATALOGUE - TICKETS HERE

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH BANDBOX, THE WEATHER STATION TO ISSUE THE FIRST EVER VINYL PRESSING OF DEBUT LP, THE LINE, IN A LIMITED RUN - PRE-ORDER HERE

US TOUR DATES WITH FIRST AID KIT CONTINUE THIS WEEK - FULL DATES BELOW

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This December, The Weather Station will settle in for a hometown residency at Toronto’s Great Hall for three nights, performing two entire albums each evening. “It's an ambitious undertaking wherein I will play most of my back catalogue,” says Tamara Lindeman. “Six albums in three nights, from All Of It Was Mine to How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars. The shows will feature all star bands, and we'll be playing each album in full, with full arrangement, and unreleased songs from each era as well.”

Night 1 of the residency will feature All Of It Was Mine and the 2014 EP What Am I Going To Do With Everything I Know, “in addition to a few songs I wrote at the time and never released,” says Lindeman. “This will be a really special, intimate night.”

On Night 2, The Weather Station will perform Loyalty andThe Weather Station. “These two records have a real synergy of theme and form; they’re records that are very much about travelling, expanding, seeking,” 

And finally, Night 3 will showcase Ignorance and How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars. “We never really had a chance to properly play How Is It and this show gives a chance to do that, with the beauty of the full original recording band,” says Lindeman. “It will feel like floating. Putting these two companion records in direct conversation will feel like the culmination of something really intangible; connecting the dots in full.”

Ticket links and details for the residency can be found below. A three-night residency package is also available.

TORONTO’S GREAT HALL RESIDENCY TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE

In addition to the residency news, The Weather Station is also partnering with Bandbox to re-release The Line, in its first ever vinyl pressing, limited to 500 copies and shipping in late October. “The Line is my first album,” says Lindeman. “I recorded it all myself, from 2005-2009, teaching myself how to record, how to write, and how to be a musician all in the process. I mixed it myself, I recorded it all myself, I even painted the front cover art and released it on CD independently. It encompasses the creation of a band, a self, an artistic process, and captures the moment of someone figuring out what music is and how to make it. 

“I rarely talk about The Line and have always been content to let it fly under the radar. I made it in response to the passing of someone I had loved, and it is very much an album that is overtly about grief. People find it when they want to, and it is not for everyone. I see it as a young record, full of choices I would not make now. From the vantage point of time passed, I realize though that I'm fiercely proud and protective of this record, proud of what I did, what I attempted, what I made. I think too that, as a beginner songwriter and artist, already I was trying to score not just my own experience, but the universal experience of this thing; of the darkest nights that one can have, and the sort of blank wall midnight parts of the psyche. It makes for a heavy record, but I can look back with respect for my young self that I had the courage and the desire to go there, and hold nothing back.”

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After performances at Montreal Jazz Fest and Mariposa Folk Festival this summer, The Weather Station is now on tour throughout North America with First Aid Kit before returning to Canada for stops at Calgary Folk Festival and Regina Folk Festival. Full tour dates can be found below.

TOUR DATES
July 14 - Washington, DC - The Anthem ^
July 15 - Philadelphia, PA - The Fillmore ^
July 16 - Boston, MA - Roadrunner ^
July 18 - New York, NY - Radio City Music Hall ^
July 20 - Toronto, ON - History ^
July 21 - Grand Rapids, MI - Meijer Gardens Amphitheater ^
July 22 - Chicago, IL - Salt Shed ^
July 23 - St. Paul, MN - Palace Theatre ^
July 29-30 - Calgary, AB - Calgary Folk Festival
Aug 12 - Regina, SK - Regina Folk Festival

^ With First Aid Kit

TORONTO’S GREAT HALL RESIDENCY

NIGHT 1 - December 11, 2023
All of It Was Mine
What Am I Going To Do with Everything I Know 
TICKETS HERE

NIGHT 2 - December 12, 2023
Loyalty
The Weather Station
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NIGHT 3 - December 13, 2023
Ignorance
How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars
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Three Night Residency Package
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