Turning Heads welcomes Canadian songwriter and performer Tamara Lindeman, who makes music as The Weather Station. Get in touch: [email protected] Tamara has been releasing music as The Weather Station since the late-'00s. The project's fifth album, Ignorance, is out now via venerated American label Fat Possum. It’s Tamara’s most polished record to date and it contains more stylistic depth than any of her previous outings. Ignorance follows The Weather Station's self-titled fourth album (2017), which built on the folk and Americana sounds of earlier Weather Station albums with full band arrangements that were, at times, genuinely rocking.The Americana influences aren’t absent from Ignorance, but the album incorporates pop melody, disco rhythms and layered percussion. Tamara wrote the album on keyboard, not guitar, and piano is at the centre of many of the songs. She's backed by a band that includes not just drums, bass and guitar but also saxophone, flute and strings. Tamara has always taken a writerly approach to lyric composition. Past releases have centred on things like faithfulness and faithlessness, feminist politics and the acceptance of love. On Ignorance, she focuses on climate change and its entwinement with neoliberal economics – often to quite devastating affect.Turning heads is recorded on the stolen land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation; the traditional custodians of the land. I pay my respects to their elders past and present, and acknowledge that sovereignty has never been ceded.