The Weather Station – the project of Toronto-based Tamara Lindeman – announces her return with Humanhood, due out in January, alongside lead single ‘Neon Signs’.
Humanhood is the most arresting album Lindeman has ever made as The Weather Station and follows 2021’s Ignorance, and 2022’s accompanying piece How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars. 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.
From the outside, 2022 likely appeared a year of glory for Lindeman, with ignorance one of that year’s highest praised records. 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. It is a narrative album that, listened from front to back, transcribes the journey from dissociation towards connection.
It takes only 10 seconds for Lindeman to pull us to the floor on ‘Neon Signs’, the album’s opening track. “I’ve gotten used to feeling like I’m crazy – or just lazy,” she sings, singing 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.
The Weather Station will be heading out on tour in 2025 to promote the new album. They will play mainland Europe before playing shows in the UK and Ireland. The tour begins on 26 February in Hamburg, and includes performances in Berlin, Amsterdam and Paris. UK dates begin on 6 March in Brighton and includes stops in Glasgow, Manchester and London. Full tour dates and tickets can be found here.
Humanhood is out on 17 January 2025 via Fat Possum. Pre-order here.
Tour Dates 2025
February
- 26 – Hamburg, Germany – Nochtspeicher
- 27 – Copenhagen, Denmark – DR Studie 2
- 28 – Berlin, Germany – Silent Green
March
- 02 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Tolhuistuin
- 03 – Brussels, Belgium – Botanique / Museum
- 04 – Paris, France – Point Ephemere
- 06 – Brighton, UK – CHALK
- 07 – Leeds, UK – Brudenell Social Club
- 08 – Dublin, Ireland – Button Factory
- 10 – Glasgow, UK – Saint Luke’s
- 11 – Manchester, UK – Band On The Wall
- 12 – Bristol, UK – The Fleece
- 13 – London, UK – Islington Assembly Hall
