The Weather Station releases “Mirror,” the final single off Humanhood, her new album out this Friday via Next Door Records. Following the “breathtakingly pretty” (Stereogum) “Body Moves,”“Mirror” is laid onto the ongoing backdrop of the climate crisis, battling theories of human nature. Lindeman sings: ‘You were dousing your fields in a chemical rain, you were cutting my arm to transcend your own pain / Oh but god is a mirror – everything is.’ “The confrontation is gentle, because I’ve been there too,” Lindeman explains. “But life and nature is a giant biofeedback machine. What you put out there responds. And you respond; you can’t help it. That’s what is always happening. That’s one of the many things I meant when I said ‘god is a Mirror.’”
“Mirror” features straight drums hitting up against soft draped piano, resulting in organic and synthetic tones doubling and splitting apart. Lindeman comments, “I wanted the song to warp and disintegrate; to come in and out of being like the imaginary scaffold that holds up a fantasy or cognitive dissonance. In the end, the band grows garbled and comes apart, giving way to a suspension of synth and string textures. I wanted it to feel like being bathed in light; maybe the light I was talking about in the song.”
MORE ABOUT HUMANHOOD
Humanhood is radiant and propulsive; discursive and strange. Songs dissemble into washes of strings, fall apart completely. Textures coalesce and fragment, harden into songs; give way again to abstract instrumental passages which carry the listener from song to song. Clear, powerful pop songs fade into view or arrive all of a sudden; before abrupt turns, tonal shifts, acid wash synth fadeouts. It’s the weirdest Weather Station record yet – and 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 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 Weather Station will kick off a North American tour this coming spring following an extensive U.K. and European tour beginning this month. A full list of dates can be found below, and tickets can be purchased here.
THE WEATHER STATION TOUR DATES
Sun. Jan. 19 – Bristol, UK @ RT Bristol – Q&A
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
Sat. Mar. 8 – Dublin, IE @ Button Factory
Sun. Mar. 9 – Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club
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
