| The Weather Station | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | October 6, 2017 | |||
| Studio | Hotel2Tango, Montreal, Quebec [1] | |||
| Length | 37:42 | |||
| Label | Paradise of Bachelors | |||
| Producer | Tamara Hope | |||
| The Weather Station chronology | ||||
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The Weather Station is the eponymous fourth studio album by Canadian band the Weather Station. It was released on October 6, 2017 through Paradise of Bachelors.
The album was a Juno Award nominee for Contemporary Roots Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2018.
| Aggregate scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AnyDecentMusic? | 8.0/10 [2] |
| Metacritic | 85/100 [3] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| The A.V. Club | B [4] |
| Drowned in Sound | 9/10 [5] |
| Exclaim! | 9/10 [1] |
| Mojo |   [6] |
| Paste | 8.4/10 [7] |
| Pitchfork | 8.0/10 [8] |
| Q | [9] |
| Record Collector | [10] |
| Uncut | 9/10 [11] |
| Publication | Accolade | Rank | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exclaim! | Top 10 Folk/Country Albums of 2017 | 1 | |
| The Line of Best Fit | Top 50 Albums of 2017 | 40 | |
| Spin | Top 50 Albums of 2017 | 40 | |
| Stereogum | Top 50 Albums of 2017 | 38 | |
| Uncut Magazine | Top 75 Albums of 2017 | 4 | |
| Uproxx | Top 50 Albums of 2017 | 43 |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Free" | 3:08 |
| 2. | "Thirty" | 3:41 |
| 3. | "You and I (On the Other Side of the World)" | 4:40 |
| 4. | "Kept It All to Myself" | 3:10 |
| 5. | "Impossible" | 3:25 |
| 6. | "Power" | 4:36 |
| 7. | "Complicit" | 3:34 |
| 8. | "Black Flies" | 2:12 |
| 9. | "I Don't Know What to Say" | 2:49 |
| 10. | "In an Hour" | 2:55 |
| 11. | "The Most Dangerous Thing About You" | 3:32 |
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