Photo by Brendan George Ko 

“I wanted the song to warp and disintegrate; to come in and out of being like the imaginary scaffold that holds up a fantasy or cognitive dissonance,” explains Tamara Lindeman of what we’re hearing on “Mirror”, the conclusive preview off her new album, Humanhood, before its arrival later this week. There’s an ornate rapture in what she’s creating with her music here that feels very kindred in this moment to the spiritual connection which Tori Amos sees between the human spirit and the world that surrounds it, with piano lines plotting pathways to new worlds while feral brass, oozing rhythm and percussion, and synth gleams root themselves around it like a view of nature taking its course. “I don’t make the rules / I just watch them unfurl / Like smoke always rising from the fires of the world,” she sings. As light begins to pass through and everything becomes clearer, the reflection is merely what was always intended to show.

Directed by: Philippe Léonard

The Weather Station’s Humanhood will be released January 17th on Fat Possum.