The Weather Station Shares Final Ignorance Single, “Parking Lot”

Toronto songwriter Tamara Lindeman has shared one last single ahead of her much-anticipated new album as The Weather Station, offering a final preview of Ignorance (Feb. 5, Fat Possum) in the form of “Parking Lot,” a strange and beautiful pearl of a dance-pop track.

“‘Parking Lot’ is my strange gentle disco song about a humble encounter with a bird and being tired and being in love, and being heartbroken in ways I didn’t quite yet understand,” says Lindeman in a statement. “I don’t fully know how everything connects in this song other than it obviously does. I wanted to make the recording very passionate and beautiful while also being very muscular while also being very gentle, and so I did.”

She sure did. Subtle disco—nimble-fingered drums, muted guitar noodling, understated keys—opens onto Lindeman’s musings on a songbird that “sang the same song / Over and over and over and over again / Over the traffic and the noise.” As “Parking Lot” picks up speed and strings heighten Lindeman’s lovely vocals, she draws a sense of wonder from this mundane scene, concluding, “it just kills me when I see some bird fly / It just kills me, and I don’t know why.” Like Ignorance as a whole, the song finds Lindeman creating propulsive art-pop that rides its light touch a long way, conjuring an unknowable intrigue that makes the music far more than the sum of its parts.