The Weather Station (Tamara Lindeman) has signed to Fat Possum and released her first new song in three years, following her Paradise of Bachelors-released 2017 self-titled album. The new song is called "Robber," and it finds Tamara expanding The Weather Station's indie-folk style, taking it into suspenseful art rock territory with wailing jazz sax, climactic baroque pop string arrangements, and more. She says:

I think in my life I’ve been pretty naive, always tried to see the good in everyone (still do), always tried to make do with what is and not think of what can’t be (still do),​” says Lindeman. “​But those attitudes are dangerous when applied at a societal level, especially at this moment in time. I think we’re all in denial a bit, about where we are, and what is happening, because it’s easier on some level, easier to try and make do with what’s missing than to see what’s missing.

I think it’s hard to believe in the robber, hard to even see the robber; it’s easier to try and make love to or glamourize the robber. It hurts too much otherwise.​ ​To put it straight; there are real human people who are literally robbing us and all future generations of everything that matters, right now. But we literally can’t see that as a society, because for one thing we’ve been taught not to value what is taken, and for another because we’ve been taught to glamourize and love the taker. We love to love the taker. We don’t know how to see the victim of the taking.

The song's video is Tamara's first self-directed clip, and it was shot by Jared Raab in the forest on the property where Tamara grew up. She continues:

Throughout the video is a thread of denial, of people performing their roles even when nothing seems to make sense, and nothing is quite right, and we are quite literally lost in the woods; which feels like a pretty perfect summation of our year so far. From an emotional and mood standpoint, I wanted the video to feel like how 2020 does to me; steeped in a sort of omnipresent unease and a threat of distant violence, even as life goes on, performers perform, dancers dance, food couriers seek addresses. The threat is felt only by some characters, while others are curiously unaffected, seeming not even to notice. I wanted to capture the disorientation of participating in capitalism and performance in general, where it can feel like power and co-option, self actualization and violation, sometimes all at once.​

"Robber" comes out with the b-side "Better Now" on Friday (10/16) via Fat Possum (pre-order). Watch the new video below.

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