The Weather Station’s last tour saw 175 shows worldwide.
Past shows & festivals include Vancouver Folk Music Festival, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Calgary Folk Music Festival, Pickathon, Hillside Festival, The War On Drugs (opener), Bahamas (opener)
Top 25 Albums on Metacritic based on international reviews (2017 LP The Weather Station).
50+ million Spotify streams.
Signed to Fat Possum for the 2021 release of forthcoming album, Ignorance (Feb 5)
Awards nominations: 2 x Polaris Prize nominations (Loyalty and The Weather Station), Juno Award nomination (Contemporary Roots Album of the Year 2018), SOCAN Songwriting Prize nomination (for song ‘Mule in the Flowers’ 2013)
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PRAISE FOR IGNORANCE (2021 LP)
“Lindeman’s nimble voice moves from airy falsetto to an earthy alto with the grace and daring of a diving bird.” - New York Times
“Amid Ignorance’s bustling arrangements, [Lindeman’s] lyrics have the impact of fireworks, sparks that zip upward and explode with scintillating brilliance.” - Pitchfork
"On Ignorance, the Weather Station’s dazzling fifth album, Lindeman arrives.” - Pitchfork
"Tamara Lindeman’s songwriting has reached stunning new heights. With a full band supporting her, her new album draws upon the natural world to create unforgettable moments of calm and beauty.” - Pitchfork
"The sound of her band—which now includes two drummers, a saxophonist, and a watercolor smear of synth, strings, flute, bass, and electric guitar—has never felt more versatile or distinctive, like an array of set pieces she rearranges to accompany each individual story.” - Pitchfork
"Her writing throughout Ignorance can feel like the collected epiphanies from a lifetime of observing.” - Pitchfork
"Tamara Lindeman’s incredible new album is a visionary environmental plea.” - Rolling Stone
"one of the most audaciously inventive auteurs working in the broad singer-songwriter tradition.” - Rolling Stone
“Majestic” - New Yorker
"An ornate act of world-building.” - New Yorker
"Lindeman’s graceful vocals drift just above her well-crafted songs as she sings softly and achingly about making a life in a place that’s gradually decaying.”
- New Yorker
"a powerhouse set of songs that feels like the album Lindeman has spent the last decade working toward.” - Bandcamp
"She writes in vivid, poetic koans throughout Ignorance, packing short lines with images rich in detail. You’re not drawn into Ignorance so much as you submerge yourself in it—and Lindeman’s vast world provides countless avenues to explore." - Bandcamp
"2021′s first great indie-pop album” - Philadelphia Inquirer
"Lindeman is an expert noticer who conjures a world in a few lines, like a finely sketched short story.” - Philadelphia Inquirer
"Ignorance has an eye for beauty, valued for its fragility.” - Philadelphia Inquirer
“one extraordinary singer songwriter” - Sound Opinions
“What a step up!” - Sound Opinions
“[Ignorance] is also astutely captivating. Its sound, a wily kind of folk, sprawls like Earth’s topography, all its precious grooves, bumps, and underground agitations accounted for.” — NYLON
"This is some of the most sophisticated music Lindeman’s made, carefully orchestrated and produced with a glimmering sheen, but it also contains hints of chaos deep within.” - Stereogum
"the most stunning indie release of the young year.” - Billboard
"This is an album to explore, dissect and cherish.” - Billboard
“The music is frantic and gorgeous, a sensory overload.” - MOJO, 9/10 Album of the Month
“The album ends with the sound of a foot releasing the piano’s sustain pedal. Perfect.” - Uncut, 4/5 Album of the Month
"a deeply felt series of internal reflections, a musical document of human connections (and the fumbling, failing attempts at it) made in the face of such tragedy.” - AV Club
"The piano-driven beauty of album highlight ‘Trust' even adopts Tori Amos-like mystery, as the record builds to a crescendo, then ends on a note of hope—one that underlies the entire project, making an already-great record that much more of a cleansing spiritual exorcism.” - AV Club
"As a whole, Ignorance can carry an audience through beautiful arrangements and atmosphere” - Under The Radar
"we’re left hanging on to every note” - Under The Radar
"The orchestrated clash of form and folly gives Ignorance a wide-open sonic scope that often recalls '80s sophisti-pop groups like Talk Talk, Prefab Sprout, The Blue Nile, and The Waterboys, or even Mirage-era Fleetwood Mac.” - Brooklyn Vegan
"She's explicitly making the case that ignorance is not bliss, not anymore, but musically, artistically, Ignorance is a thoughtful, transportive and genuinely moving call to action.” - Brooklyn Vegan
"the kind of album that arrives in the middle of an artist’s discography and marks a clear, penetrating break with everything that came before it.” - Paste
"a stunningly assured plunge into a sleek, buzzing jazz-pop wilderness.” - Paste
"Lindeman’s supple, creamy voice—somewhere between the Cowboy Junkies’ Margo Timmins and Tanita Tikaram—is remarkably versatile. But it’s the flowing, dramatic, surreal, yet intriguing lyrics that drive these tunes.” - American Songwriter
"She has an appealing, naturalistic delivery that’s emotionally authentic.” - Christian Science Monitor
"A masterful statement for The Weather Station” - FLOOD
"many of the tracks reflect a world on the brink of cataclysm, with its fearful, angry, and petty inhabitants not wanting to accept what’s on the horizon. Even amongst the chaos, there’s a shaded beauty reflected back as well.” - FLOOD
"Lindeman has transformed her music into something vital and fierce, animated by pulsing and rhythm-driven grooves that retain her knack for spacious beauty in composition while adding a grandiose urgency marked by a lyrical concern with environmental devastation. Don’t miss this one.” - AV Club
"Driving percussion and melodies you can dance to envelop Lindeman’s deep, dark meditations on loss and grief, heartbreak and vulnerability.” - No Depression
"When the words are brooding but the arrangements are shimmery, we’re intoxicated, almost given permission to dance away our existential dread.” - No Depression
PRAISE FOR ‘ROBBER’ (SINGLE)
“The song’s spasmodic outro is likewise enigmatic yet deliberate, with Wurlitzer, strings and sax extending a guiding hand to a mystical plane unknown. A welcome left turn for Lindeman, ‘Robber’ is at once a bold reintroduction and yet another riveting tale from an ever-unsparing storyteller.” - Paste, #22 in “The 50 Best Songs of 2020”
“‘Robber’ unfurls like a cerebral crime drama, the kind that lures you in with a moody pilot and leaves you glued to your couch until you figure out whodunnit...By the time "Robber" reaches its urgent climax, Lindeman has transformed a personal reckoning with societal failures into a reflective prompt for the listener. Can you blame yourself for ruthlessness if you were never given a choice?” - Pitchfork, #24 in “The 100 Best Songs of 2020”
“Fiona Apple called for bolt cutters in the spring; Tamara Lindeman has brought us a sledgehammer for the fall.” - Pitchfork
“The song begins with the light, dry tap of a drumstick on a cymbal, and from there blooms into the most dynamic and captivating music from her project as the Weather Station yet.” - Pitchfork
“This maximalist version of the band never once feels like overindulgence. Instead, it animates the emotional landscape that accompanies a crumbling worldview.” - Pitchfork
“The latest offering from the Weather Station, the project helmed by Canadian artist Tamara Lindeman, is a creeping, powerful meditation on all sorts of systemic social ills. Moving away from the Joni Mitchell-inspired folk of her previous albums, she embraces a sound more akin to the spacious and vaguely uneasy compositions of Talk Talk, allowing her music to more effectively take up big, billowing questions." - NYT
“A remarkable reinvention, evolution, self-reevaluation? Whatever it is, the spectral disco that underlines @TheWeatherStn's "Robber" breathes a new consciousness.” - Lars Gotrich
“Over the past decade, Lindeman has repeatedly proven herself as a masterful translator of the inner life...Here, she leverages her insight to fracture the systems that rob people of joy, comfort, health, and safety.” - Pitchfork
“sophisticated pop from an an inquiring mind” - Uncut
“Canadian folk poet Tamara Lindeman’s supercharged return: double drummer propulsion; free jazz sax; the sweep and and grandeur of Unfinished Sympathy.” - Mojo
"Look, even if you loved the recent Weather Station albums as much as we did, you are not prepared for ‘Robber.' It marks a whole new sound for Lindeman, one based in tension-building jazz rhythms and disembodied saxophones and slow-then-all-encompassing melodies; she’s abandoned any remaining vestiges of folk for an elusive strain of rock music here. ‘Robber' blew me away the first time I heard it and it is, frankly, an incredible song.” - Stereogum
“An almost complete sonic overhaul” - Stereogum
"The new song is called ‘Robber,' and it finds Tamara expanding The Weather Station's indie-folk style, taking it into suspenseful art rock territory with wailing jazz sax, climactic baroque pop string arrangements, and more.” - Brooklyn Vegan
“The song is a slow build, but Lindeman’s somber voice and the shifting jazz instrumentals make it an essential listen.” - Paste
"Shades of Talk Talk and Sensual World-era Kate Bush glimmer through Tamara Lindeman's comeback, which reinvents the Canadian folk-rock outfit as art-pop aesthetes with a sharply surreal line in political commentary." The Guardian
PRAISE FOR ‘PARKING LOT’ (SINGLE)
"a soft and whirling observation of a feathered friend.” - The FADER
"Like Ignorance as a whole, the song finds Lindeman creating propulsive art-pop that rides its light touch a long way, conjuring an unknowable intrigue that makes the music far more than the sum of its parts.” - Paste
"incredibly appealing” - Brooklyn Vegan
PRAISE FOR ‘ATLANTIC’ (SINGLE)
"The song features singer-songwriter Tamara Lindeman wrestling with the contrast between the natural beauty of her surroundings and the darker destruction taking place in the world around her.” - Rolling Stone
"Gently propulsive and reflective, the song transmutes the despair of climate anxiety into something uplifting and affirming, even as Lindeman’s restless lyrics offer no easy answers to the crisis.” - Pitchfork
“‘Atlantic' speaks to the overwhelming lassitude of existing in a jeopardized world, then opts to see it through a wondrous prism.” - Pitchfork
“[‘Atlantic’] showcases the Weather Station’s sleek, sinuous sound. ‘Atlantic' sits somewhere between its two predecessors, streamlining the loose experimental wisps of ‘Robber' into a gliding, propulsive track that lets in a bit more of the directness and warmth of 'Tried To Tell You.'” - Stereogum
"Over a tightrope taut drum kit, steady blocky piano chords, flinty flutes, and arching guitars, Lindeman struggles to comprehend the enormity of what she’s seeing, to take it in and make sense of it.” - Aquarium Drunkard
PRAISE FOR ‘TRIED TO TELL YOU’ (SINGLE)
"Tamara Lindeman just won't stop leveling up. If her music was already striking, it's now become all but impossible to deny." - Stereogum, #1 Song of the Week
"Tried To Tell You" is a little more straightforward but no less stunning, using its driving rock beat as a foundation to layer Wurlitzer and strings up into a stirringly graceful monument to the heavens." - Stereogum, #1 Song of the Week
“The singles from the Weather Station’s new album Ignorance mark a dramatic shift from the project’s first decade as an indie-folk act...Lindeman’s lyrical prowess hasn’t budged, but the Weather Station have never sounded as fun as they do here.” - Entertainment Weekly
“The Weather Station have undergone something of a sonic makeover ahead of their new album Ignorance (due on February 5), moving from a stripped-down folk sound to something a little more plugged in and rhythmic. ‘Tried toTell You,’ per a statement, is a beautiful song about “reaching out to someone; a specific person, or maybe every person, who is tamping down their wildest and most passionate self in service of some self (and world?) destructive order.” - The FADER
“Imagine an Art Pop Christine McVie gently defibrillating your stony heart” - The Guardian
"Do yourself a favour, and find a moment to take in the wonder of this new song" - CBC Music