In the article, the Weather Station's album 'Humanhood' features a poignant conversation between Tamara Lindeman and a friend, grappling with themes of heartache and ecological disaster. The music blends emotional depth with rich instrumentation, moving beyond Lindeman's folk roots. The album builds on its predecessor, ‘Ignorance’, touching on deep personal loss tied to the climate crisis. Through a collaborative effort, the band creates a lush soundscape that encapsulates the struggle between despair and hope, without providing definitive answers, instead allowing the audience to reflect on the journey of rebuilding.
When you get shattered into a million pieces, what can you do? Can you put the pieces back together? How do you try?
The conversation... concerns personal heartache and environmental catastrophe both... it stares at that shattering directly, considering equally the destruction it caused and the potential to rebuild.
Much of that record centered on the climate crisis, and Lindeman's personal mourning at its unfolding—how the loss of species and the destruction of ecosystems is not just a political or structural failure, but also can truly break a person's heart.
These recordings were later overdubbed with banjo, fiddle, guitar, strings, synth, and percussion—the group effort renders Humanhood's songs lush and circuitous, seemingly propelled by an internal logic that's being pieced together as you hear it.
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