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Such a lovely surprise to be nominated for @TheJUNOAwards today for ‘How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars’. So surreal to see my highly interior very gentle record be up there on the splashy screen with all the heavy hitters.
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Love as always to the musical dream weavers Karen Ng, Ryan Driver, Ben Whiteley, Tania Gill, Christine Bougie and also Jean Martin and the folks at Canterbury, and @nextdoorrecords5669 for making it all happen.
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World, friends, I’m so proud and excited to finally tell you, I am releasing another album on March 4. It is called ‘How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars’. It is my heart.
This album is a companion piece to ‘Ignorance’. It is songs written at the same time, songs that intersect and compliment and connect. It completes the picture, lyrically, though musically it couldn’t be more different, but to me that makes sense. It’s like the exhale at the end of the sentence.
The record has no drums, and was recorded live off the floor. It is an album of intimidate piano ballads, essentially. I recorded it after Ignorance, just to have it down, but I was never sure I would release it. It felt too internal to be heard. But it’s coming out. It’s being pressed onto gold vinyl. I don’t expect everyone will understand or like it. It’s not really an album for everybody. But it holds an essential piece of my heart and I really love it.
More on this to come. In the meantime, it’s up for preorder and the first song was released this morning.
Album cover shot by Jeff Bierk.
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DELUXE EDITION OF IGNORANCE
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Releases today digitally and pre-order is now up for double vinyl edition in iridescent blue!
The deluxe includes two never before released songs which were recorded for the album, ‘Better Now’ and ‘Look’.
It also includes some wonderful live versions of album tracks with the band, as well as quiet piano versions of some of the classics. Vinyl includes an inner sleeve reflection on the making of, as well as studio photos, and the cover is foil stamped. It’s all very deluxe! A truly deluxe deluxe!
You can hear the new tracks as of today anywhere you listen to music. My heart really belongs too to the piano version recordings we made for this. Once again so grateful and thrilled for the love that has been shown this album. A deluxe edition feels so very deluxe and only is happening cause of that love.
New tracks recorded as part of the album session, and mixed by Marcus Paquin. Piano versions and live versions recorded in various places and mixed by Howie Beck. Mastered by Joao Carvalho.
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Thank you to all the incredible publications who have responded to 'Ignorance' so positively
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Our Tiny Desk concert is up now!! For this one, we took to the woods (of course). Shot in one take, at the very end of an extension cord, while caterpillars wandered the mixing board. There were so many mosquitoes, but it was beautiful.
Featuring Kieran Adams, Christine Bougie, Philippe Melanson, Karen Ng, Johnny Spence, Ben Whiteley, filmed by Adam Crosby, recorded by Patric McGroarty, and mixed by Howie Beck.
Last show we play to a camera! So excited to play for humans! I felt so weirdly camera shy for this one and I can’t wait for that to change! Thank you so much to NPR Music and Bob Boilen for having us!
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Greetings friends!
I am so very excited at last to announce an enormous run of tour dates, beginning later this year and stretching into 2022. We will be crossing Canada, circumnavigating the US, circling Europe and the UK, and playing several very exciting festivals (if all the stars align from a covid-19 perspective).
When I wrote this album, it was with the show in mind, and I've daydreamed about the show I want to present for the last two years. So I'm overjoyed to finally have a chance to perform it in real life, with all the interchange that can happen with actual humans in a room.
Tickets go on sale at 10am local time, this Friday the 11th of June from - www.theweatherstation.net/tour
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We are presenting a live stream concert film show extravaganza this week, on March 11!
10 piece band. Two percussionists, flute, saxophone. It's the band that performed on the album plus extra, just to be extra. Technical team cherry picked from the best of the best. This is no iPhone video; this is the real deal.
We are performing out of the very fancy Toronto studio Revolution Recording. It’s the only studio in the city that could hold us all socially distanced, and that’s great, because it’s also a really nice studio, which means every note we play will be going through a gorgeous Neve board before it hits your ears.
Planning this has been the hardest creative and logistical tangle I’ve yet undertaken, but I am so excited to present this show! And the beautiful thing is, you can come no matter where you are in the world. You can find tickets at noonchorus.com/the-weather-station/ - they are cheap. Come to the show so I don’t lose my shirt on this thing! Also cause this band I have playing with me is IT.
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/// SUBDIVISIONS ///
Really, I was just trying to write a classic song. I was listening a lot to Bonnie Raitt, probably. Strangely, I wrote this as an uptempo song, but the band turned it into this slow burn ballad, thankfully, and then they made it perfect. We recorded it in maybe an hour. The pocket was so deep, I could feel it in my chest. Christine Bougie improvised that perfect solo. There was really nothing more to be done. I love that it feels so classic. Another reminder that time is everything in music. Another reminder that this band is perfect.
Moving image by Jared Raab
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/// HEART ///
I thought I would rewrite these lyrics, then I thought I would leave this song off the album. Then I thought I should at least name it something less soft than ‘Heart’...
Of course, this is completely ironic, because the song is about being vulnerable, and of course, what frightened me about it was it’s vulnerability. So I’m glad I kept it, glad especially for those beautiful Felicity Williams' vocal improvisations, and the triangle, and the way the band approached the strange droning structure of this piece.
I really don’t know why we wind up feeling like we must be so invulnerable, so sharp, so indifferent, so hard. And honestly, this desire to be invulnerable is arguably ... destroying the world. If you think about it.
I’ve felt very exposed and vulnerable over the course of this album coming out, and at times I feel all the equivalent feelings that made me want to leave this song off the album, and, for that matter, stop writing long Instagram captions and stop saying so much in interviews and all the rest. But then again, I have to quote myself in saying ‘don’t ask me for indifference / don’t come to me for distance’
Not what I am here for.
Moving image by Jared Raab
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/// TRUST ///
Wrote this song in one sitting and chose not to question it. Recorded it live with the band in one session and chose not to question that either. This one is a tough one. Half the time I feel like apologizing for this song’s existence. But I also know it has some truth to carry.
Special thanks to Owen Pallett for stepping in and arranging the strings on this one after I gave up. Such a beautiful and thoughtful arrangement.
Moving image by Jeff Bierk
Can’t get over that moonlight on the water.
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