THE WEATHER STATION RELEASES “BODY MOVES” FROM UPCOMING LP

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
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“On Humanhood, Lindeman brings the earth-swallowing scope of climate change and social collapse to human size — this is a record as much about heartbreak and community and the body as it is about our slump toward catastrophe.  Across Humanhood, pain blooms like dandelions through the sidewalk, always making itself known. The record's power is in the way Lindeman tempers that pain with an abundance of light — Humanhood is a document of fear and loss, but never of defeat.” - Exclaim!, Cover Story 

“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." - The New York Times

"Eco-friendly auteur documents her journey back from the frayed edge." -
MOJO, 'Album of the Month'

"[Tamara Lindeman’s] vocals are as delicate as they are forceful, as transportive as the escapist tale she sings of. Even from the singles alone, Humanhood is an easy shoo-in for one of 2025’s early highlights.” - Uproxx on “Window”

“Few artists have put out as much good music this decade as Tamara Lindeman.” - Paste

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The Weather Station releases “Body Moves,” the latest single off the forthcoming album, Humanhood, out January 17 via Next Door Records. While many singer songwriters are usually presumed to be diarists, it’s never been that simple for The Weather Station, the project of Tamara Lindeman. Her lyrics use first person, but they don’t end there; rather they tend to branch out into philosophical question marks, existential knots; entangled threads of memory and allegory. On “Body Moves,” she sings ‘you thought you knew what it was you loved / then again - look at this mess / your body fooled you / your body moved you - yes.’  Throughout Humanhood, the body is a constant, acting as a betrayer, or maybe a teacher. 

On the creation of “Body Moves” Lindeman says: “This song was the hardest song, we recorded it, changed everything, recorded it again, changed everything, recorded it again. It had to be tender and bruised and painful; like falling into a dream but also into reality. This was yet another song I rejected when I wrote it because I wasn’t sure how to stand behind it.  But then again, the song was simply presenting something that is real and that happens; the body fools you, the body moves you, sometimes in directions seemingly self destructive or painful or visceral. Bodies are biological and so is their language; chemical, pain, impulse, shut down, wake up. What matters is the interpretation, the response, whether or not you’re able to hear the signal at all.” 

Co-directed by Lindeman and Philipe Léonard, the song’s video depicts what Lindeman calls “the two hemispheres of the mind.” She explains, “One side is taking charge; moving with intention. The other side is sort of drifting in and out of dreams and is more abstract. At the centre is the actual self; in a state of confusion, being pulled by these two separate parts. At times, all three selves coordinate and move together. At other times, they don't. The song describes being misled by the body; a part of you pulling in a different direction than the other. The choreography reflects that; limbs moving with a mind of their own.”

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MORE ABOUT THE WEATHER STATION
2021’s Ignorance, a “heartbroken masterpiece” (The Guardian), made waves commercially and drew near universal critical acclaim. In addition to the music, Lindeman found herself in the unlikely position of becoming a sort of spokesperson of climate grief; bringing that conversation to Rolling Stone and Pitchfork, the New York Times and The New Yorker. But as a high pressure touring cycle wore on, behind the scenes, she experienced a personal crisis. Laid onto the ongoing backdrop of the climate crisis; the waves of misinformation, the conspiracy theories, the battling theories of human nature, her experience felt less personal, and almost more collective. And so, she got curious. And she wrote songs.

With a long list of song fragments and a series of abstract mission statements, Lindeman and co-producer Marcus Paquin headed into Canterbury Music Studios in late 2023. Combining 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, the result was a music of contrasts; straight drums hitting up against soft draped piano and wandering clarinet, organic and synthetic tones doubling and splitting apart. Lindeman brought a subsumed British folk influence to the melodies, eventually landing in the meeting place between disco drums and abstract percussion, new music sax and folk melody - and attempts to push the envelope outwards in every direction.

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Humanhood is radiant and propulsive; discursive and strange. It’s a record of intense details; piano notes disintegrating into static, fiddle materializing out of a cloud of cymbals. Clear, powerful pop songs fade into view or arrive all of a sudden; before abrupt turns, tonal shifts, acid wash synth fadeouts. Each song mirrors, sonically and musically, the state of mind described in the lyric; moving from distant to claustrophobic, overwhelming to beautiful. Listened 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.

Last month, The Weather Station announced an extensive North American Tour which is now on sale. A full list of dates can be found below, and tickets can be purchased here. 

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THE WEATHER STATION TOUR DATES
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 - Vancouver, BC @ Hollywood Theatre
Fri. May 16 - Victoria, 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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MUSTAFA ANNOUNCES DEBUT WORLD TOUR, SHARES LIVE PERFORMANCE VIDEO FT. DANIEL CAESAR AND MORE

MUSTAFA ANNOUNCES DEBUT WORLD TOUR LOST IN THE DUNYA WORLD TOUR LAUNCHING FEBRUARY 11TH - TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE ON DECEMBER 13

SHARES LIVE SESSION PERFORMING SONGS FROM DUNYA FEATURING DANIEL CAESAR AND MORE

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DUNYA OUT NOW VIA ARTS & CRAFTS

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“Mustafa offers sweeping, guitar-driven folk that is rich in simplicity and radical for its intimacy. He illustrates the world with a sentimental pen, allowing listeners to feel his memories rather than merely witness them.” Exclaim!, Cover Story

“There's a singularity to Mustafa's music, captured with lyrics that reflect a subject matter never before explored in Canadian folk. Each Mustafa project is a colossal offering, and beyond the revelatory nature of his songwriting, the music itself is sonically riveting.”
CBC Music, #1 Canadian Album of 2024

“Across 12 songs, Mustafa introduces listeners to a host of characters — childhood friends, overseas cousins — each a finely drawn portrait of contrasts and multitudes, of the impossible distance between a hometown and a homeland, of the tension between the dunyā and al-Ākhirah.” Toronto Star, Cover Story

“There is the music within the notes and the music beyond them. A voice hums, fingers on strings strum, and for an album-long moment, the ballads in Dunya by acclaimed artist and poet Mustafa shift from mere musical composition to a maxim of a home long sought but rarely held.” The Globe and Mail, Cover Story

“[a] distinctly modern take on folk music” - The New York Times 

“quietly awe-inspiring elegies and remembrances” - NPR, Best Albums of 2024

“Mustafa preserves and celebrates ‘the ordinary life in the hood’ through disarmingly raw and blended genres and stories.” - Paste Magazine, 100 Best Albums of 2024 

“a powerful treatise on faith, rage, and despair.” - Rolling Stone, 100 Best Albums of 2024 

“Dunya depicts the man’s mission to hold cherished people and traditions close while the larger facets of reality he can’t control shake his foundations.” - Vulture, The Best Albums of 2024 

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After playing select dates in major markets in support of his 2021 project When Smoke Rises, singer-songwriter Mustafa announces his debut world tour to launch in February of 2025. The announcement comes in conjunction with his debut album Dunya being celebrated as one of the best albums of 2024 by CBC Music, Rolling Stone, Exclaim!, The New York Times, Vulture, NPR, and NME among others. Tickets go on sale this Friday, December 13th at 10AM local time at http://mustafathepoet.com/tour.

Alongside the tour announcement, Mustafa also shares a live session featuring performances of songs from Dunya with album collaborators like Daniel Ceasar, Micah Preite (guitar), Kibrom Birhane (masenqo, krar), and Monica Martin (backing vocals). The session showcases performances of “What good is a heart?,” “Leaving Toronto” and “I’ll Go Anywhere.”

WATCH / SHARE DUNYA LIVE PERFORMANCE HERE

Upon Dunya’s release in late September, the album received critical acclaim by the likes of Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Teen Vogue, The Face and Kinfolk, the latter two of which feature Mustafa on the covers of their current issues. Though the upcoming live dates serve as his first official headline tour, Mustafa is no stranger to pulling music lovers into his orbit for transformational poetic reflections on faith, personal and familial relationships, and the stark realities of growing up in Toronto’s inner city. 

In 2024 alone, he produced two installments of his Artists For Aid concert series, which have taken place in New Jersey and London this year and feature the likes of 070 Shake, Blood Orange, Clairo, Daniel Caesar, Earl Sweatshirt, Faye Webster, FKA twigs, King Krule, Nicolas Jaar, Nick Hakim, Omar Apollo, Ramy Youssef, Stormzy, 6lack, Yasiin Bey and more across the two events, in addition to Mustafa himself.

Speaking about Dunya, Mustafa shares that he is “trying to preserve and celebrate the ordinary life in the hood,” a notion that is beautifully exemplified in a song like “SNL.” But Dunya, which roughly translates from Arabic to “the world in all its flaws” is also an interrogation of his faith and lifelong relationship with Islam, something that Mustafa has referred to as “​​the longest, most peculiar relationship in my life.” This examination is evident in “I’ll Go Anywhere,” which on surface examination reads as a folk song, albeit one that interpolates a melody his parents sang to him as a child and prominently features the oud, a string instrument originating from the Middle East that folds seamlessly into the record’s unique, rich atmosphere paired with vocal contributions from Rosalía. This effortless mixture of disparate elements that seemingly shouldn’t work together, but ultimately do, speaks to the power of Mustafa’s work as an artist.

Find tickets, watch Mustafa’s live performance session, and listen to Dunya above and stay tuned for more from the artist coming soon. 

BUY / STREAM DUNYA HERE

UPCOMING TOUR DATES // TICKETS
2/11 - San Francisco, CA @ Palace of Fine Arts 
2/13 - Los Angeles, CA @ Palace Theatre 
2/15 - Minneapolis, MN @ Cedar Cultural Center 
2/16 - Chicago, IL @ Old Town School of Folk 
2/18 - Ann Arbor, MI @ The Ark 
2/20 - Brooklyn, NY @ Crown Hill Theater 
2/23 - Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church 
2/24 - Washington, D.C. @ Lincoln Theater 
2/26 - Somerville, MA @ Arts at the Armory 
2/27 - Montreal, QC @ Le National 
5/9 - London, ENG @ Barbican 
5/10 - Paris, FR @ Cirque d’Hiver 
5/11 - Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso 
5/12 - Brussels, BE @ Church Notre Dame de Laeken 
5/14 - Berlin, GER @ Hiemathafen 
5/16 - Copenhagen, DK @ DR Studie 2
5/18 - Stockholm, SE @ Sodra Teatern 
5/23 - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia @ ____
5/25 - Port Sudan, Sudan @ _____

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GEOFFROY SHARES NEW VERSION OF LATEST SINGLE, FEAT. FRANKIE STEW AND HARVEY GUNN

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Geoffroy closes out another stellar year of music and shows by releasing a new version of  "No Calls Before Noon," featuring a collaboration with UK rap/producer duo Frankie Stew and Harvey Gunn. The song originally appeared as the focus track from the Deluxe version of Geoffroy's 2024 LP Good Boy, and caught the attention of the Brighton pair who appears on this collaborative version, adding a powerful new dimension.

Frankie Stew's introspective lyrics perfectly accentuate the song's emotional tone, but also highlight the underlying theme of gratitude that permeates the track. "Look at what I've achieved, nearly makes me weep," he says, as if rapping into the handset of a rain soaked telephone booth. "Makes me wanna just be less deep...be more free, I've got so much to be happy for, d'you know what I mean?"

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MORE ABOUT GEOFFROY + GOOD BOY
Geoffroy is an essential and emerging voice in Canadian music. Now three LPs into a career that has solidified him as one of Quebec’s best artists, the Montreal-born songwriter and producer takes the next step internationally with the release of fourth full-length Good Boy.

Almost 10 years removed from his first release, this project was sparked with the intention of creating Geoffroy’s most authentic work to date, blending organic instrumentation and electronic elements into a bright and rich album filled with diverse sounds, a collection of songs that moves beyond the brooding depth that has defined recent works. 

Each past album that Geoffroy has released reflected a different tone and period in the artist’s life and his evolution and experimentation with different sonic palettes. In this case, Good Boy sees Geoffroy look back and collaborate with longtime production partners Clément Leduc and Gabriel Gagnon, but also incorporate a diverse collection of new background musicians and singers that brings the album to life in vibrant colour. 

WATCH / SHARE “NO CALLS BEFORE NOON” (OFFICIAL VIDEO) HERE

That diversity was driven by a gradual shift in Geoffroy’s influences, having spent recent years immersing himself in the worlds of cumbiamusic and a range of other latin and african rhythmic styles, that melded with his traditional singer-songwriter form to create something that feels truly international. 

In fact the record’s narrative was inspired by a trip to Mexico where he befriended - and ultimately adopted - a shelter dog named Papi, bringing him from the streets of Mexico City to Montreal. Papi serves as the mascot for the LP, but more importantly acts as an overarching metaphor for being lost, but ultimately found. 

Asked to reflect on the change in perspective that accompanied the transition from his previous musical era into this one, Geoffroy spoke to the clarity he experienced in terms of his own agenda in the creation of music. 

“Live Slow Die Wise had a slower pace and I was eager to step away from the nostalgia and melancholy I had visited and analyzed plenty in the past,” Geoffroy reflects. “I did what felt natural, a feel-good album (I think) that shed the weight of the other ones. I feel I’m getting closer to the sound I’m looking for, though I might be chasing something that’s faster than me.” 

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12/12/24 Quebec, QC - Grizzly Fuzz
12/13/24 Quebec, QC - Grizzly Fuzz

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