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.
For all its musical sophistication and all its lyrical heart, Ignorance is a confident, almost bolshy statement of intent.
A masterful record that sounds like a full flowering of a remarkable talent. It is true: Ignorance can indeed be bliss.
Compelling, imminent, and overwhelmingly ineffable, Ignorance goes beyond excellent and enters the rarified realm of the superlative.
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.
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.
Ignorance is truly a masterful statement for The Weather Station.
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.
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.
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.
Ignorance is a departure. More specifically, this album is a stunningly assured plunge into a sleek, buzzing jazz-pop wilderness.
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.
'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.
‘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.
This is what Ignorance delivers: the document of an introvert empowered by the vastest crisis of passion imaginable.
A revelatory collection of glassy-piano dance grooves and noir folk, based in Tamara Lindeman's piercing songwriting.
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.
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.
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.
The Weather Station plays the sophisti-pop sound as safely as possible on Ignorance.
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
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
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
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
"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
1 | Robber 5:20 | 85 |
2 | Atlantic 3:53 | 83 |
3 | Tried to Tell You 3:38 | 79 |
4 | Parking Lot 4:06 | 82 |
5 | Loss 3:36 | 72 |
6 | Separated 3:24 | 73 |
7 | Wear 3:18 | 71 |
8 | Trust 5:00 | 71 |
9 | Heart 3:47 | 77 |
10 | Subdivisions 4:40 | 77 |
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