THE WEATHER STATION
Ignorance [Fat Possum/Inertia]
ich with deft and diverse instrumentation, mazelike production and breezy, low-key guitar lines that really come to life on repeat listens, the fifth Weather Station album is a true of conscionable musicality — it comes three years after their self-titled effort, but it’s the kind of album most bands would spend decades slaving over. The stirring flourishes of strings, flute, saxophone, synth and other instruments add a sense of luminous, extraterrestrial whimsy to what are otherwise very pensive and melancholic tunes; not a minute passes by without, leading to what I am confident in stating is The Weather Station’s most charismatic — and effortlessly most exciting — offering to date.
