Take A Listen To The Weather Station’s New Single “Window”

Photo Credit: Brendan George Ko

The Weather Station — the project of Toronto-based Tamara Lindeman — recently announced Humanhood, her new album out January 17 via Next Door Records. Today, she presents the climactic new single/video “Window,” which follows the “sleek and driving” (Aquarium Drunkard) “Neon Signs.”.

“Window” is an anthem of escape. The slashing guitar and spiraling electronics conjure a panic attack, the mind demanding answers. “I can’t explain right now,” she sings during one of the album’s most gripping moments, “just that I’m leaving.” The song’s video, directed by Philippe Léonard, presents Lindeman’s performance of the song projected out the window of a moving van onto trees, forest and passing signs, recalling the rippling fabric motif of the Humanhood album art. Lindeman describes the video as being “filmed on the island of Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs, Quebec late one night with battery powered projector, with many attempts to get that one perfect take. Philippe’s note to me was ‘you are the window.’”