The Weather Station - Ignorance
Critic Score
Based on 24 reviews
2021 Ratings: #35 / 753
Year End Rank: #12
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2021 Rank: #341
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CRITIC REVIEWS

100
The Observer

Art often seeks to wring beauty out of pain – always at the risk of mawkishness or cliche. The Weather Station’s fifth album is an undertaking that succeeds – many times over.

100
Record Collector

For all its musical sophistication and all its lyrical heart, Ignorance is a confident, almost bolshy statement of intent.

90
The Line of Best Fit

A masterful record that sounds like a full flowering of a remarkable talent. It is true: Ignorance can indeed be bliss.

90
Northern Transmissions

Compelling, imminent, and overwhelmingly ineffable, Ignorance goes beyond excellent and enters the rarified realm of the superlative.

90
Uncut

Emotions are never straightforward, often shrouded in a mist, or on pause in the unheard half ofa dialogue, waiting to emerge. But there is still joy to be found in the sound of these songs.

90
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.

90
FLOOD Magazine

Ignorance is truly a masterful statement for The Weather Station.

90
Exclaim!

Ignorance is a record in search of that silence. Across ten tracks of jazz-influenced, liquid-silver art rock, Lindeman grasps at the world thrumming just beyond our punishing screens and endless news cycles, beyond our emotional and physical walls.

90
No Ripcord
What's being attempted here is sensational, an unmissable combination of common emotions and abstract anxieties that shouldn’t work. And yet, when Lindeman shares with us, these songs explode with the air of something incredible.
90
AllMusic

Ignorance is a major statement that never feels oversimplified. While she's growing so much with each album that it seems risky to call this Lindeman's best, it's safe to say this is another outstanding achievement from the Weather Station.

89
Still Listening

Ignorance is not only a musical triumph but also an anthemic ode to a sense of guilt that’s been gradually emerging in all of us, whether we choose to admit it or not.

87
Paste

Ignorance is a departure. More specifically, this album is a stunningly assured plunge into a sleek, buzzing jazz-pop wilderness.

84
Beats Per Minute

Ignorance might be one of the most important records of the year, as it puts all our hearts and minds under a microscope, and with tweezers in hand Lindeman pulls each layer back.

80
Clash

'Ignorance' is a well-crafted and heart-felt piece of work that dances seamlessly through the caverns of dark and light, a perfect offering to hold onto with hope.

80
The Forty-Five

‘Ignorance’ ramps up the sonic freedom – but the new album is immaculately thought-out. Lindeman faces the climate change Goliath the best way possible: through a personal lens. She’s never preachy, rarely obvious, her watertight lyrics probably worthy of a Nobel.

80
The Irish Times
An intimate album that takes more than one listen to fully attune to, but the music remains a joy.
80
Spectrum Culture
Favoring empathy over antagonism, it’s a breakup album more than a protest record, and with lush songwriting and restless instrumentation, the result is a deeply moving take on our struggle against climate change.
80
Mojo

This is what Ignorance delivers: the document of an introvert empowered by the vastest crisis of passion imaginable.

80
Rolling Stone

A revelatory collection of glassy-piano dance grooves and noir folk, based in Tamara Lindeman's piercing songwriting.

80
NME

The result is an album that pulses with energy, one that’s not a dancefloor record in the traditional sense ... but one with an insistent groove woven into its 10 delicately emotive songs, which deal with love in all its messy permutations.

80
musicOMH

Devoid of any jagged distinguishing features that may distract or impose a singular interpretation, the record turns out to be a source of rumour and mystery in which to succumb to subconsciously immaculate devastations.

70
American Songwriter
Like her chosen alias, The Weather Station’s music is fluid and variable. This latest twist is an unexpected, yet welcome change of climate in her ongoing career.
70
Under the Radar

As a whole, Ignorance can carry an audience through beautiful arrangements and atmosphere. However, and perhaps as a result of the beauty of the music and her delivery, Lindeman’s goal of delivering emotional lyrics hits shy of the mark.

50
The Needle Drop

The Weather Station plays the sophisti-pop sound as safely as possible on Ignorance.

marvelgaryen
77

This is quality art pop. With a very cohesive and back-to-back fun album The Weather Station made space feels embracing and touching. The instrumentals are all so nice, her voice is deep but also quite soft which is ear pleasing at most. The sophistication is palatable and it's also curated, I got every sequence and every abruption as a form of expanding creativity.
In some parts of this record I remembered our dearest Fiona Apple for a while and some other artists as well, but that's not ... read more

Fhhgvnjscvbbg
NR

I’m a little late, but I’ll review this anyway.

I have noticed that this album has been a bit polarizing with the main complaints being that it sounds like a generic indie album and that the songs sound similar. However, I loved this. The album reminds me of the works of Fiona Apple and Florence + the Machine. I love Tamara Lindeman’s vocals and the arrangements and production are well done. The part of the album I appreciated the most was the lyrics about climate change. ... read more

BGL13
67

god my original review sucked so that’s getting deleted. congrats nico you now have the top review.
ok now on to the review.
this album starts off fantastic with robbers and atlantic. both tracks are beautiful art pop songs. the vocals throughout the entire album are incredible but they really shine on the first two tracks. tried to tell you is also pretty good but it is far from great. but, from that point on, the album just becomes mediocre in my opinion. like, there aren’t any ... read more

eeriedescents
71

Ignorance is intimate without losing its occasional punch. Its commentary on the climate crisis and other internal conflicts are inspirational only a few times.

Favorite Tracks - Robber // Wear // Trust

Worst Track - Loss

TLEGeorge
95

"The highway disembodied from the rest of my experience
A narrow band of ice that stretched across the disappearance
Of the central plan, the guiding hand
The keeping up appearance of a life."

I only found this album accidentally, trying to find the OTHER song called Subdivisions. I listened to it, loved it a lot, and have been a supporter of The Weather Station ever since. Ignorance packs so many layers of absurdly complex instrumentation into its forty minutes, like the ocean ... read more

70

The Weather Station makes a fun yet safe pop record.

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Track List

1Robber
5:20
85
2Atlantic
3:53
83
3Tried to Tell You
3:38
79
4Parking Lot
4:06
82
5Loss
3:36
72
6Separated
3:24
73
7Wear
3:18
71
8Trust
5:00
71
9Heart
3:47
77
10Subdivisions
4:40
77
Total Length: 40 minutes
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Added on: November 18, 2020