The Weather Station has released two new singles, ‘Airport’ and ‘Only the Truth’, which were singles recorded during the sessions behind Tamara Lindeman’s latest album Humanhood. ‘Airport’ is yearning and light on its feet, while the revelatory ‘Only the Truth’ tightens in all the right places. Take a listen below.
“There were so many strong songs I left off Humanhood because the album had such a narrative arc to adhere to,” Lindeman explained in a statement. “‘Airport’ was one of them that I’m glad to release now. I’ve always hated airports; I find them so dehumanizing. This song tells a story of a person trying to mirror what is around them; that sort of shutting down, not caring, acting like you don’t care even when you really do. At the heart of it though is, of course, an intense longing, and a hope for something alive that feels like it can’t be.”
Lindeman described ‘Only the Truth’ as “one of my favourite songs from Humanhood and just didn’t make the tracklist at the very last moment, but it feels so relevant and connected with the record. It intersects with ‘Neon Signs,’ it expands on the same idea; that the truth is this sort of lumpen, complicated, organic thing. Falsehoods and lies glimmer, reach towards you, need you; but the truth ‘doesn’t care if you care / all it ever is is there.’”
