The Weather Station reflects on 'Mirror'
The Weather Station
Releases “Mirror” From New Album, Humanhood
Out This Friday Via Fat Possum UK instores start this weekend
"an early yardstick for all the releases to follow across the rest of the year" - 9/10 Clash "Eco-friendly auteur documents her journey back from the frayed edge." MOJO 'Album of the Month'
"the work of a songwriter at the peak of her powers... as affecting as anything you are likely to hear in 2025." 9/10 Uncut
The Weather Station releases “Mirror,” the final single off Humanhood, her new album out this Friday, January 17th via Fat Possum. “Mirror” is laid onto the ongoing backdrop of the climate crisis, battling theories of human nature. Lindeman sings: “You were dousing your fields in a chemical rain, you were cutting my arm to transcend your own pain / Oh but god is a mirror - everything is.” “The confrontation is gentle, because I’ve been there too," Lindeman explains. “But life and nature is a giant biofeedback machine. What you put out there responds. And you respond; you can’t help it. That’s what is always happening. That’s one of the many things I meant when I said ‘god is a Mirror.’”
“Mirror” features straight drums hitting up against soft draped piano, resulting in organic and synthetic tones doubling and splitting apart. Lindeman comments, “I wanted the song to warp and disintegrate; to come in and out of being like the imaginary scaffold that holds up a fantasy or cognitive dissonance. In the end, the band grows garbled and comes apart, giving way to a suspension of synth and string textures. I wanted it to feel like being bathed in light; maybe the light I was talking about in the song.
Humanhood is radiant and propulsive; discursive and strange. Songs dissemble into washes of strings, fall apart completely. Textures coalesce and fragment, harden into songs; give way again to abstract instrumental passages which carry the listener from song to song. Clear, powerful pop songs fade into view or arrive all of a sudden; before abrupt turns, tonal shifts, acid wash synth fadeouts. It’s the weirdest Weather Station record yet - and the most visceral. It’s also the strongest, the most cinematic, the most complete as an evocation of an inner landscape. Each song mirrors, sonically and musically, the state of mind described in the lyric; moving from distant to claustrophobic, overwhelming to beautiful. Listened front to back, the album transcribes a journey from dissociation back towards connection; a journey echoed in form, in sound, and lyric - and in the making of the record itself.
The Weather Station will kick off a North American tour this coming spring following an extensive U.K. and European tour beginning this month. A full list of dates can be found below, and tickets can be purchased here.
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The Weather Station Tour Dates
Sun. Jan. 19 - Bristol, UK @ RT Bristol - Q&A
Mon. Jan. 20 - Liverpool, UK @ RT Liverpool - record store performance
Tue. Jan. 21 - Leeds, UK @ Jumbo Leeds - record store performance
Wed. Jan. 22 - Nottingham, UK @ RT Nottingham - record store performance
Thu. Jan. 23 - London, UK @ Rough Trade East - record store performance
Thu. Mar. 6 - Brighton, UK @ CHALK
Sat. Mar. 8 - Dublin, IE @ Button Factory
Sun. Mar. 9 - Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club
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
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