Tamara Lindeman has announced her new album as The Weather Station, Humanhood, which will be out January 17 via Fat Possum. She made the album with co-producer Marcus Paquin, drummer Kieran Adams, keyboardist Ben Boye, percussionist Philippe Melanson, woodwind player Karen Ng, and bassist Ben Whiteley, along with contributions from Sam Amidon, James Elkington, and Joseph Shabason.
Where 2021’s great Ignorance put the climate crisis through a personal lens, Humanhood looks even more inwardly as Lindeman went through a very difficult period of her life as she struggled with a mental health crisis. First single “Neon Signs,” still very much musically in the elegant Ignorance mode, deals with this. “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 says. “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?”
Watch the “Neon Signs” video below.
The Weather Station have not announced North American dates yet but will be out in Europe in early 2025. Those dates are below.
Humanhood
1. Descent
2. Neon Signs
3. Mirror
4. Window
5. Passage
6. Body Moves
7. Ribbon
8. Fleuve
9. Humanhood
10. Irreversible Damage
11. Lonely
12. Aurora
13. Sewing
The Weather Station – Tour Dates
Wed. Feb. 26 – Hamburg, DE @ Nochtspeicher
Thu. Feb. 27 – Copenhagen, DK @ DR Studie 2
Fri. Feb. 28 – Berlin, DE @ Silent Green
Sun. Mar. 2 – Amsterdam, NL @ Tolhuistuin
Mon. Mar. 3 – Brussels, BE @ Botanique / Museum
Tue. Mar. 4 – Paris, FR @ Point Ephemere
Thu. Mar. 6 – Brighton, UK @ CHALK
Fri. Mar. 7 – Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club
Sat. Mar. 8 – Dublin, IE @ Button Factory
Mon. Mar. 10 – Glasgow, UK @ Saint Luke’s
Tue. Mar. 11 – Manchester, UK @ Band On The Wall
Wed. Mar. 12 – Bristol, UK @ The Fleece
Thu. Mar. 13 – London, UK @ Islington Assembly Hall