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The Weather Station’s new album
Ignorance is out now via Fat Possum/Inertia. It’s Lindeman’s fifth album as The Weather Station and her most polished record to date.
Ignorance follows The Weather Station’s self-titled fourth album (2017), which built on the folk and Americana sounds of Lindeman’s earlier releases with full band arrangements that were, at times, genuinely rocking.
Ignorance contains more stylistic depth than any previous The Weather Station album. The folky influences aren’t absent, but the album incorporates pop melody, disco rhythms and layered percussion. Lindeman wrote the album on keyboard, not guitar, and piano is at the centre of many of the songs. She’s backed by a band that includes not just drums, bass and guitar but also saxophone, flute and strings.
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Art often seeks to wring beauty out of pain â always at the risk of mawkishness or cliche. The Weather Stationâs fifth album is an undertaking that succeeds â many times over.
Itâs the sort of record whose victories deserve to be accompanied with trumpet fanfares: how Toronto-based Tamara Lindeman quietly revolutionises an old, familiar trope â the pop album about heartbreak, co-starring piano and strings â and makes it a rallying cry for our times; how she takes overdone old 80s beats and dusts them with the barest shimmers of jazz.
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