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The Weather StationHumanhood (Next Door)

The Weather Station’s 2021 album, Ignorance, was Toronto songwriter and musician Tamara Lindeman’s lush, jazz-inflected, art-pop expression of the grievous anxiety created by our destruction of the planet.

It also marked her arrival as a creator of rich, multi-layered musical and lyrical tapestries — far removed from the willowy folk of her youth. Ignorance made the Weather Station a household name, but Lindeman has said her mental health suffered in its wake, to the point that she was unable to enjoy what she’d worked so hard to achieve.

Four years on, Humanhood is Lindeman’s reconciliation with the contradictions of modern life.

Fittingly, it opens with a brief, almost orchestral tuning snippet called Descent and, as the album’s first proper song, Neon Signs, begins, she sings “I’ve gotten used to feeling like I’m crazy… Why can’t I get off this floor? Think straight anymore?”

The song then …