Weather Station - Ignorance (Translucent Ruby Vinyl)

Toronto songwriter Tamara Lindeman has remade what The Weather Station sounds like once again. She has used the occasion of a new record to create a new sonic landscape, tailor-made to express an emotional idea. Ignorance is sensuous, ravishing, breaking into pure pop at moments, at others a dense wilderness of notes.

Ignorance began when Lindeman became obsessed with rhythm; specifically straight rhythm, dance rhythm, those achingly simple beats that had never showed up on a Weather Station album before. The album marks Lindeman’s first experience writing on keyboard, not guitar, and her first time building out arrangements before bringing them to a band. Montreal producer Marcus Paquin (Arcade Fire) co-produced, with Lindeman, and also mixed the record. The lyrics across Ignorance roil with conflict. The narrator confronts characters who turn away from love.

Ignorance follows The Weather Station’s self-titled LP in 2017, and her 2015 breakthrough album Loyalty. Those albums saw Tamara develop an international fanbase, touring the world as both a headliner and support for artists such as The War on Drugs, The Mountain Goats, and Bahamas.

Limited Edition TRANSLUCENT RUBY RED vinyl produced by Next Door Records in 2021.

TRACKLISTING:

Side A
1. Robber
2. Atlantic
3. Tried To Tell You
4. Parking Lot
5. Loss

Side B
1. Separated
2. Wear
3. Trust
4. Heart
5. Subdivisions