The Weather Station will release her new album, How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars, this Friday, March 4, via Next Door Records. The release comes on the heels of her JUNO Award nomination for 2021’s highly-acclaimed Ignorance, which was announced yesterday. At the height of this exciting news, she today reveals a new HIITISLATS single/video, “To Talk About”, a frank meditation on love. Its lyrics are beautifully plaintive, conceptualizing intimate moments of expression: “When there is too much midnight to ever express, to listen to his breath, and to lay again my head on his chest. I am lazy, I only want to talk about love.” Tamara Lindeman’s voice is cushioned by piano, later joined by Ryan Driver’s tenor.
The video for “To Talk About” was directed by Lindeman who says, “I wanted the video to capture the feeling of surrender the song has; a feeling of surrendering to emotion at the expense of everything else, within a world that is not necessarily conducive to that softness. I wanted the video to be overtly emotional and sensual, and so I turned to the stereotypical signifiers of these things; beaches, sunsets, the colour red, a sort of operatic performance of emotion. I think the video is an evocation of the feeling of being in love; obsessed with someone or something regardless of your surroundings, where you are, what is happening. Reaching towards softness and touch, even from within aloneness.”
How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars is intended to be heard as a companion piece to Ignorance. These are songs written at the same time that connect emotionally and deal with many of the same themes: disconnection and conflict, love, birds, and climate feelings. It is an album of immense sensitivity, a recording of a band and a person daring to reach towards softness without apology.
How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars was recorded live off the floor at Toronto’s Canterbury Music Studios from March 10-12, 2020. With Jean Martin co-producing, Lindeman sang and played piano live while the band improvised their accompaniment; Christine Bougie on guitar and lap steel, Karen Ng on saxophone and clarinet, Ben Whiteley on upright bass, Ryan Driver on piano, flute, and vocals, and Tania Gill on wurlitzer, rhodes, and pianet. Recorded live in just three days, How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars is achingly intimate; full of breath, silence, and detail.
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The Weather Station just finished up the first North American leg of their tour, selling out shows all over the country. Along the way, they made their late night television debut on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and taped a KEXP session, which was released yesterday. The Weather Station will present an intimate, solo performance of the entire new album tomorrow, Thursday, March 3rd at 9pm EST via a Bandcamp livestream. Tickets are $10 and are on sale now.
Photo Credit: Danielle Rubi
THE WEATHER STATION TOUR DATES:
Sun. Mar. 13 – London, UK @ Rough Trade East (SOLO)
Tue. Mar. 15 – Brighton, UK @ Komedia +
Wed. Mar. 16 – Bristol, UK @ Thekla +
Thu. Mar. 17 – Manchester, UK @ Gorilla +
Fri. Mar. 18 – Dublin, IE @ Workmans Club +
Sat. Mar. 19 – Belfast, UK @ Black Box +
Mon. Mar. 21 – Glasgow, UK @ Mono +
Tue. Mar. 22 – Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club +
Wed. Mar. 23 – London, UK @ Scala +
Fri. Mar. 25 – Brussels, BE @ Botanique ~
Sat. Mar. 26 – Paris, FR @ La Boule Noire ~
Sun. Mar. 27 – Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso Noord ~
Mon. Mar. 28 – Berlin, DE @ Frannz Club ~
Wed. Mar. 30 – Copenhagen, DK @ Loppen ~
Thu. Mar. 31 – Oslo, NO @ Bla ~
Fri. Apr. 1 – Stockholm, SE @ Debaser / Bar Brooklyn ~
Sat. Apr. 2 – Gothenburg, SE @ Oceanen ~
Mon. Apr. 4 – Hamburg, DE @ Nochtwache ~
Tue. Apr. 5 – Cologne, DE @ Blue Shell ~
Wed. Apr. 6 – Munich, DE @ Milla ~
Thu. Apr. 7 – Zurich, CH @ Bogen F ~
Sun. Apr. 24 – Philadelphia, PA @ World Cafe Live *
Mon. Apr. 25 – Washington, DC @ Union Stage *
Tue. Apr. 26 – New York, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg *
Thu. Apr. 28 – Boston, MA @ Crystal Ballroom *
Tue. May 31 – Lisbon, PT @ Aula Magna (SOLO)
Wed. Jun. 1 – Braga, PT @ Theatro Circo (SOLO)
Thu. Jun. 2 – Porto, PT @ Mou.Co (SOLO)
Sat. Jun. 4 – Setubal, PT @ Casa da Cultura (SOLO)
Sun. Jun. 5 – Faro, PT @ Teatro das Figuras (SOLO)
Tue. Jun. 7 – Milan, IT @ Santeria (SOLO)
Wed. Jun. 8 – Florence, IT @ Sala Vanni (SOLO)
Thu. Jun. 9 – Padua, IT @ Anfiteatro Del Venda (SOLO)
Sat. Jun. 11 – Barcelona, ES @ Primavera
Thu. Jun. 16 – Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo
Sun. June. 19 – Dallas, TX @ Club Dada
Mon. Jun. 20 – Austin, TX @ 3TEN
