The Weather Station releases ‘Airport’ and ‘Only The Truth’

The Weather Station, the project of Tamara Lindeman, is known for releasing emotionally attuned, patiently beautiful music for over a decade. Leading into a UK and European headline tour, The Weather Station now returns with two new singles recorded during the ‘Humanhood’ sessions.

“There were so many strong songs I left off ‘Humanhood’, because the album had such a narrative arc to adhere to” Lindeman says. “’Airport’ was one of them that I’m glad to release now. I’ve always hated airports, I find them so dehumanizing. This song tells a story of a person trying to mirror what is around them, that sort of shutting down, not caring, acting like you don’t care even when you really do. At the heart of it though is, of course, an intense longing, and a hope for something alive that feels like it can’t be.”

Lindeman describes ‘Only The Truth’ as “one of my favourite songs from ‘Humanhood’ and just didn’t make the tracklist at the very last moment, but it feels so relevant and connected with the record. It intersects with ‘Neon Signs’, it expands on the same idea, that the truth is this sort of lumpen, complicated, organic thing. Falsehoods and lies glimmer, reach towards you, need you, but the truth ‘doesn’t care if you care. All it ever is, is there.”

The Weather Station’s European and UK tour kicks off November 1. It includes multiple festival appearances, a co-headline date with Destroyer, and a London Jazz Festival performance in which the band will be accompanied by a string quartet. On November 1, The Weather Station will perform at TakeRoot Festival in Groningen and November 7 at Crossing Border Festival in The Hague.