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Artist | Whitney
Title | Light Upon The Lake
Genre | Indie Format | Album
Source | CDDA Time | 30:11
Label | Secretly Canadian Store | 2016
Catalog | SC337 Rip | 2016
Bitrate | 232 kbps Size | 53.13 MB
Freq | 44.1 kHz Encoder | Lame 3.98.4
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01. No Woman 3:58
02. The Falls 2:20
03. Golden Days 4:05
04. Dave's Song 3:03
05. Light Upon The Lake 3:11
06. No Matter Where We Go 2:42
07. On My Own 2:14
08. Red Moon 1:43
09. Polly 3:29
10. Follow 3:26
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Devising sauntering, country-informed indie pop, Whitney is a band built
around the core songwriting duo of Julien Ehrlich, formerly of Unknown
Mortal Orchestra and Smith Westerns, and Max Kakacek, formerly of the
latter. Ehrlich sings and plays drums, while Kakacek handles guitars. Their
first single, "No Woman", appeared in January 2016, and two months later
they made waves with an appearance at the South by Southwest music
festival. With a fluctuating lineup of supporting players, Whitney quickly
followed that with opening spots on tours for NE-HI, Wild Nothing, and
Unknown Mortal Orchestra. They had secured festival spots at the Governors
Ball, Bonnaroo, and Pitchfork Music Festival, among others, before their
debut album, "Light Upon The Lake", arrived via Secretly Canadian. It bore
an official lineup of Ehrlich, Kakacek, Malcolm Brown, Tracy Chouteau,
Charles Glanders, Josiah Marshall, and Will Miller.
Often surprisingly intimate for a seven-piece, the group makes subtle use
of instrumentation like brass and strings to flesh out without symphonizing
their country-tinged indie pop on "Light Upon The Lake". The melancholy
opener, "No Woman", begins with cushiony keyboards and a short brass
fanfare before Ehrlich - who doubles as the band's lead singer and drummer
- introduces his misty, double-tracked falsetto. He appears alongside
strummed acoustic guitar with lyrics like 'I've been going through a
change/I might never be sure/I'm just walking in a haze'. A melodic
electric-guitar cadence and atmospheric strings contribute to a mostly
instrumental chorus that seems to leave the storyteller alone to regroup.
Later, the title track also makes use of elegant guitar lines and those
double-tracked vocals for a brisker but still affecting, angst-ridden
query. Other more uptempo songs come with livelier arrangements and
brighter dispositions, such as the appropriately summery "Golden Days" and
the twangy, heartening "No Matter Where We Go". The album wades into jam
band territory on occasion, but for the most part hovers between a
singer/songwriter-friendly indie rock club and somewhere on the dial of 70s
AM radio. It proves a pretty comforting place to be. Including "Light Upon
The Lake" and its one jaunty instrumental ('Red Moon'), the 30-minute set
of ten tunes will leave many wanting more, an auspicious trait for an
otherwise satisfying debut.
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