“I need that deep silence” AN AUDIENCE WITH THE WEATHER STATION

“THAT’S crazy!” says Tamara Lindeman, when informed that Ignorance has just been voted Uncut’s best album of 2021. “I’m really shocked. Thank you.” Only in the last couple of months, with her band playing their first shows since the record’s release back in early February, has its success begun to sink in. “Everything on Zoom or email has a surreal quality. So when we played the Pitchfork Music Festival [in Chicago in September] and a lot of people knew the songs, that was a major moment of, ‘Oh, this is all real, we didn’t just make it up!’ It sounds sentimental, but the biggest thing is just a feeling of being understood, which is really rare and feels quite special and beautiful.”

Amazingly for such an immediately captivating album, Lindeman admits to having major doubts about its poppier direction and the unashamed embrace of synths, sax and driving ’80s rhythms. “There were times when I loved it and times when I thought I was making