The album lifted The Weather Station beyond the Toronto indie scene in which they formed in 2006. But Lindeman fumbled the challenge of following it up with How Is It That I Should Look at the Stars.

That sense of community comes through in the lavishly textured music, which is intricately arranged but still driven by organic interplay, especially in the way Lindeman’s piano playing and ...

“Window” tests the balance between cohesion and dissolution, Lindeman’s vocal unfurling amidst an understatedly discordant mix of percussion, synths, and fuzzy guitars. “Ribbon” is a study in ...

“Your body fooled you,” Lindeman sings on “Body Moves,” a smooth, celestial jazz song that wraps around the listener with a welcome warmth emanating from an infectious piano and sax motif ...