The Weather Station Plays Antone’s Saturday Feb. 17

The deluge of quality music to experience seems continually increase. But the number of albums I come back to again and again, those that live on the turntable for weeks still hovers around only a dozen at most each year. The Weather Station, an outlet for the music of Tamara Lindeman, has produced a series of folk albums that take hold and won’t let go. Her transfixing songs take your breath away with galloping rhythms and subtle bass lines that ride beneath Lindeman’s exquisite vocals. At a time when standing out as a folk songwriter has never been more difficult, Lindeman manages to succeed tremendously; no one makes songs that sound quite like this. Her fourth album, which is self-titled, is available via Paradise of Bachelors now. If you’re a fan of thoughtful, careful folk songwriting, The Weather Station’s show at Antone’s tomorrow night shouldn’t be missed. Bahama’s, also great, headline.