How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars

One year after the release of Ignorance, The Weather Station returns with How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars. The album is intended to be heard as a companion piece to Ignorance; songs written at the same time that connect thematically and emotionally, songs that reveal the vulnerability at the heart of the body of work. Recorded live in just three days, How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars is achingly intimate; full of breath, silence, and detail.     How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars was written in the same fruitful winter of songwriting that gave rise to Ignorance, but were songs that Lindeman felt were too internal, too soft to fit on the album she had envisioned. Drawing a new column in her notebook, Lindeman wrote down the title ‘ballads’ and started writing into that idea. “These were songs I wrote entirely for myself,” she says. They are deeply connected to the songs on Ignorance though, and deal with many of the same themes; disconnection and conflict, love