Whitney - Light Upon the Lake

LOVING this record. Guess I missed it when it came out in June, but I think it showed up in my Discovery playlist or something. Pretty much every song is a perfect little gem, full of hooks and precise guitar fills. Also, I love the use of horns all over the record.

i like the drummer singer's jaunty manner in this vid, reminds me of how much fun it was to sing back-ups and play drums in an old band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkrPSi6LMrI

Thanks, I enjoyed that!

i love 'No Matter Where We Go', the rest is pretty good too. i enjoy how well-defined the guitarist's style is

love this album. it reminds me of real estate if they had an entirely different set of influences.

have you heard the woods album from this year, J0rdan? it's a bit more 70's but pairs nicely with this one (and not just because one plays after the other on my itunes cuz of their alphabetical proximity heh)

i always wanted to like woods but they never really stuck w/ me, i'll check it out tho

love this album. it reminds me of real estate if they had an entirely different set of influences.

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, October 11, 2016 4:53 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this feels otm in a way i can't articulate

i really like this now. at first i was like wtf is with the singing but i'm used to it now.

i may have said this elsewhere but i like imagining this record as a lost lp buy a singer-songwriter type from the 70s who had some major label backing but never made a dent. the arrangements are really detailed and great.

it reminds me of real estate if they had an entirely different set of influences.

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, October 11, 2016 5:53 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

totally. also: Unknown Mortal Orchestra

also i wanna live in the chorus to 'No Matter Where We Go'

I can take you out
I wanna drive around
With you with the windows down
And we can run all night

Yeah this album grew on me a lot. Whenever the horns show up>>>>>

Dave's Song or the title track are my favorites probably

elton's into them - http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/18/t-magazine/entertainment/elton-john-whitney-band.html

aw, that's a cool interview.

:)

Just saw them last night at the Independent. So good! Dude hit a couple of bum notes, but it's gotta be hard to sing exclusively in a falsetto. The rest of the band was tight, and it's always cool to see a band with a drummer as the lead singer. They sold out three shows at the Independent, and seemed incredibly stoked to be there. A lot of grumpy talk about how much Coachella sucked, which got old, but whatever. The band was tight, the lead guitar playing was perfect, and the trumpet sounded great (and the trumpetist was playing the rest of the horn section parts with his left hand on a keyboard!).

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^ what was that? This is a great band, I'm stoked to go see them play in a couple of weeks!

It was the album cover of their demos thing that they just put out

i love 'No Matter Where We Go', the rest is pretty good too. i enjoy how well-defined the guitarist's style is

― ciderpress, Tuesday, October 11, 2016 5:38 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

love this album. it reminds me of real estate if they had an entirely different set of influences.

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, October 11, 2016 5:53 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

have you heard the woods album from this year, J0rdan? it's a bit more 70's but pairs nicely with this one (and not just because one plays after the other on my itunes cuz of their alphabetical proximity heh)

― flopson, Wednesday, October 12, 2016 10:21 AM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i always wanted to like woods but they never really stuck w/ me, i'll check it out tho

https://i.imgur.com/Y0Q5xT5.jpg

why not all three

Sounds like a great show!

I went to a Whitney show last week, and was pretty disappointed. Maybe they were just near the end of a long tour, but they seemed pretty frazzled. The drummer/singer dude in particular seemed emotionally delicate, like he might go Cat Power at any moment. Drumming and singing is obviously incredibly difficult for anyone, but he was definitely having a hard time of it.

It seemed like five minutes of stage talk before every two minute song, and shit just got annoying. Maybe I was just grumpy that night, but I left before the end of the show when he stopped a song in the middle in order to call some random dude up on stage to sing with them before starting the song over.

Still love the album though

Anyone digging the new one?

I’m digging it. Need a few more listens to really have a take other than it’s chill and pretty. Not sure if there are any No Womans or Golden Days on it yet. I like Giving Up quite a bit though.

Guess I overlooked the first one & need to revisit it. Love everything about "Forever Turned Around" other than that it's over almost too soon, not that it feels like it should be any longer. Quickly becoming a favorite release from 2019.

Read your post just as the last track wrapped up and I was like “that’s it?”

Kinda like how it's almost tempting me to spin it twice in a row every time I play it.

i mean, I like Whitney a lot, but...

i mean, I like Whitney a lot, but...

i mean, I like Whitney a lot, but...

Sorry my phone was doing me wrong.