The Weather Station has put out a new single, ‘Body Moves’, lifted from her forthcoming album Humanhood. It follows previous entries ‘Neon Signs’ and ‘Window’. Check it out below.
“This song was the hardest song, we recorded it, changed everything, recorded it again, changed everything, recorded it again,” Tamara Lindeman explained a statement. “It had to be tender and bruised and painful; like falling into a dream but also into reality. This was yet another song I rejected when I wrote it because I wasn’t sure how to stand behind it. But then again, the song was simply presenting something that is real and that happens; the body fools you, the body moves you, sometimes in directions seemingly self destructive or painful or visceral. Bodies are biological and so is their language; chemical, pain, impulse, shut down, wake up. What matters is the interpretation, the response, whether or not you’re able to hear the signal at all.”
‘Body Moves’ comes paired with a video directed by Lindeman and Philipe Léonard exploring “the two hemispheres of the mind.” Lindeman added:
One side is taking charge; moving with intention. The other side is sort of drifting in and out of dreams and is more abstract. At the centre is the actual self; in a state of confusion, being pulled by these two separate parts. At times, all three selves coordinate and move together. At other times, they don’t. The song describes being misled by the body; a part of you pulling in a different direction than the other. The choreography reflects that; limbs moving with a mind of their own.
Humanhood is set to arrive on January 17 via Fat Possum. It follows 2021’s Ignorance and its 2022 companion, How Is It That I Should Look at the Stars.
