| The Weather Station | |
| Origin: | Toronto |
| Years Active: | –present |
| Current Members: | Tamara Lindeman Ben Whiteley Will Kidman Johnny Spence Christine Bougie Karen Ng Evan Cartwright Kieran Adams |
| Past Members: | Jack Donovan Simon Borer Dwight Schenk Elaine Kelly Adrian Cook Ian Kehoe |
The Weather Station is a Canadian folk music band fronted by Tamara Lindeman, formed in 2006. The band membership has changed over the years, and as of 2022 includes Lindeman (lead vocals, piano), Ben Whiteley (bass), Johnny Spence (keyboards), Will Kidman (guitar), Christine Bougie (guitar), Karen Ng (saxophone, clarinet), Evan Cartwright (drums), and Kieran Adams (drums).
The band's debut album The Line was released in 2009. Their second album, All of It Was Mine, made in collaboration with Daniel Romano, was released in 2011.[1] [2]
Lindeman was a nominee for the 2013 SOCAN Songwriting Prize for The Weather Station's song "Mule in the Flowers", co-written with Steve Lambke.[3] thumb|left|Frontwoman Tamara Lindeman performing at the 2015 Hillside FestivalThe band's third album, Loyalty, was recorded at La Frette studios near Paris, France, with Afie Jurvanen and Robbie Lackritz, who have worked on albums with Bahamas, Feist, Zeus, and Jason Collett. Loyalty was released on May 5, 2015, on Paradise of Bachelors (U.S. and worldwide) and Outside Music (Canada).[4] [5]
The self-titled 4th studio album was released in October 2017, on the Paradise of Bachelors (U.S. and worldwide) and Outside Music (Canada). The 11 tracks are purest indie folk.[6] On 18 October 2018, Live At Union was released independently as a limited edition available on Bandcamp.
The band's fifth album Ignorance was released worldwide on Fat Possum Records on 5 February 2021 and a small part (digital or vinyl only) on Next Door Records in Canada. The ten tracks were recorded with two percussionists, a saxophonist and a flutist, plus bass, keys, and guitar. Songwriter Tamara Lindeman wrote and produced all the songs. The album's theme is based on Lindeman's contemplation of the global climate crisis. Lindeman explained album's title in an NPR interview as "about this process of moving through denial into understanding".[7] It was shortlisted for the 2021 Polaris Music Prize and nominated for a 2022 Juno Award.[8]
On March 4, 2022, the band released their sixth album, How Is It That I Should Look at the Stars, also through Fat Possum. The album consists of ten songs written simultaneously with those on Ignorance but deemed too dissimilar to be included on that album; Lindeman called the album "the moon to Ignorances sun". The album was recorded in March 2020 in Toronto. It was nominated for a 2023 Juno Award.
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BEL [9] | UK [10] | ||||||||||
| The Line |
| — | — | ||||||||
| All of It Was Mine |
| — | — | ||||||||
| Loyalty |
| — | — | ||||||||
| The Weather Station |
| — | — | ||||||||
| Ignorance |
| 136 | 61 | ||||||||
| How Is It That I Should Look at the Stars |
| — | — | ||||||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | |||||||||||