The Weather Station — the project of Toronto based songwriter Tamara Lindeman — returns with new album Humanhood, released earlier this year via Fat Possum Records.

The last few years have seen The Weather Station release two albums: the career defining Ignorance (2021) and its ethereal, mostly live recording companion piece, How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars (2022). In that time, The Weather Station have gone on to headline tours across North America and Europe, play major festivals, and perform on the televised Austin City Limits as well as Jimmy Kimmel Live. Ignorance was named Best New Music (Pitchfork), and landed in year-end Top 10 lists from The New Yorker (#1), Spin, New York Times, Uncut, Pitchfork, The Guardian, and many others. Called "a heartbroken masterpiece" in The Guardian, the record was a complex evocation of climate grief that struck a chord worldwide.

As a writer, Lindeman is known for her detail. “Her writing can feel … like the collected epiphanies from a lifetime of observing” (Pitchfork). Over the course of six albums, her music has moved from home recorded, mostly acoustic folk to the “ornate act of world building” (New Yorker) that was Ignorance. 

The throughline, though, is a focus on ideas; her lyrics walk the line between the personal and the conceptual, forever tying small moments to larger metaphysical quandaries. Nominated for three Juno Awards, a Socan Songwriting Award, and shortlisted for the Polaris Prize, her albums have made a mark both critically and conceptually.

The Weather Station will be joined by a locally curated string quartet featuring Francesca Ter-Berg (cello), Flora Curzon (violin), Valeria Pozzo and Anisa Arslanagic (viola)

Opening for The Weather Station is Bristol-based artist and vocalist Lucy Gooch. Gooch grew up singing in choirs in rural Norfolk. Now an ambient pop producer, she is known for her looping vocals and engrossing electronic soundscapes. Her latest release, Desert Window, captures “straightforward moments of ethereal beauty between vast expanses of understated tension,” as described by Pitchfork.

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