BIO
The Weather Station is the fourth—and most forthright—album by The Weather Station, the project of Toronto songwriter Tamara Lindeman. Her most fully realized statement to date, it is a work of profound urgency, artistic generosity, and joy. Self-titled and self-produced, the album unearths a vital new energy from Lindeman’s acclaimed songwriting practice, marrying it to a bold new sense of confidence.
“I wanted to make a rock and roll record,” Lindeman explains, “but one that sounded how I wanted it to sound, which of course is nothing like rock and roll.” The result is a spirited, frequently topical tour de force that declares its understated feminist politics, and its ambitious new sonic directions, from its first moments. On past records, Lindeman has been a master of economy. Here her precisely detailed prose-poem narratives remain as exquisitely wrought as ever, but they inhabit an idiosyncratic, sometimes disorderly, and often daring album that feels, and reads, like a collection of obliquely gut-punching short stories.
Her previous album Loyalty was recorded at La Frette Studios in France in the winter of 2014 with Afie Jurvanen (Bahamas) and Robbie Lackritz (Feist). Nominated for the 2015 Polaris Music Prize, it earned praise from The Guardian, Pitchfork, NPR Music, Uncut, and MOJO, among many others, who celebrated its delicate, carefully worded verse, filled with double meanings, ambiguities, complex metaphors, and rich details of the everyday.
Lindeman and her band have toured extensively in North America, Europe, Australia, and Japan, both as a headliner and as support for artists such as The War on Drugs, The Mountain Goats, Damien Jurado, Bahamas, and Basia Bulat.
“Timeless… Measured, perceptive storytelling. A singer with an unmistakable & communicative voice, able to convey hope & hurt with equal clarity.” – Pitchfork
“She writes literate songs with unusual precision & sings them in an understated, open-hearted way that lends good poetry the directness of conversation.” – Uncut
“Bob Dylan aside, the singer-songwriter I’ve listened to most over the past year, & to whom I expect to be paying attention for many more to come, is Tamara Lindeman, who, under the name the Weather Station, performs songs notable for a conversational fluency, a diarist’s powers of observation, & a quiet refusal of emotional simplicities.” – Richard Williams, The Guardian
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Rough Trade Liverpool, Liverpool, UK - Tue Jan 22 2025The Weather Station
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DR Koncerthuset, Studie 2, Copenhagen, Denmark - Thu Feb 28 2025The Weather Station
Silent Green, Berlin, Germany - Sat Mar 02 2025The Weather Station
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The Fleece, Bristol, UK - Wed Mar 13 2025The Weather Station
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Théâtre Beanfield, Montreal, QC, Canada - Thu Mar 28 2025The Weather Station
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Levon Helm Studios, Woodstock, NY, US - Sat Mar 30 2025The Weather Station
Iron Horse Music Hall, Northampton, MA, US - Mon Mar 01 2025The Weather Station
Bowery Ballroom, New York (NYC), NY, US - Tue Apr 02 2025The Weather Station
Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY, US - Thu Apr 04 2025The Weather Station
Underground Arts, Philadelphia, PA, US - Fri Apr 05 2025The Weather Station
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Motorco Music Hall, Durham, NC, US - Sun Apr 07 2025The Weather Station
Grey Eagle Music Hall, Asheville, NC, US - Mon Apr 08 2025The Weather Station
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Turf Club, St. Paul, MN, US - Fri Apr 12 2025The Weather Station
Strauss Hall, Hancher Auditorium, Iowa City, IA, US - Sat Apr 13 2025The Weather Station
Bell's Eccentric Cafe, Kalamazoo, MI, US - Wed May 08 2025The Weather Station
Teragram Ballroom, Los Angeles (LA), CA, US - Fri May 10 2025The Weather Station
The Independent SF, San Francisco, CA, US - Sun May 12 2025The Weather Station
Mississippi Studios, Portland, OR, US - Mon May 13 2025The Weather Station
Mississippi Studios, Portland, OR, US - Wed May 15 2025The Weather Station
Hollywood Theatre, Vancouver, BC, Canada - Fri May 17 2025The Weather Station
The Crocodile - Old Location, Seattle, WA, US - Thu Jun 06 2025The Weather Station
The Concert Hall, Toronto, ON, Canada
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MANAGEMENT: Alastair Burns, Heartstop Music
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