American couple Whitney She releases her long awaited third album, spark via Al-Kindi secretly. The album arrives before the next round of Whitney in the UK in November, which includes an appointment at the O2 Brixton Academy in London.
Coinciding with the release, Whitney also shared the new single “LOST CONTROL”. “In many ways, this song is a registered anomaly for us.” The duo said. “Sometimes you write something so direct that it makes you ask yourself. However, the more space we have taken up since we finished LOST CONTROL, the more we love her. It’s okay to dance with the pain.”
Julian Ehrlich and Max Kakasek could hear the surprising differences in the songs they were writing for their third album like WhitneyAnd the spark – Drum loops, hooks, keyboard lines. Suddenly they looked like a reimagined band, and their pop pop music was filled with unprecedented enthusiasm and brilliance.
So in the studio, the Chicago duo built into the living room of their rented Portland bungalow, a joint escape hatch in 2020 amid the meltdowns and closures, Julian and Max set out to find out. Somewhere between midnight and dawn each night, their brains cracked at dawn and light psychedelics playing their latest creations as a disco ball spins in a hardware store and videos play silently on YouTube. Will their pop tunes—much more compelling and modern than their obscure origins—fit big-budget reels? “We came to the conclusion that we no longer shoot Super 8 videos for these things,” Julian recalls with a smile. “How about something more hi-fi, cinematic?” When the footage and the music connected, Julian and Max knew they had finally found Whitney’s voice.
spark Represents Whitney As a contemporary union of classic pop, its twelve track wraps catchy tunes around the rhythms of J Dillescas and electronic sounds. In addition to, Whitney Chopping three years of intense emotional highs and lows into a quick but deep 38 minutes, each of these twelve tracks teaches a lesson about how they (and we really are) survive.
The boredom of opening ‘Nothing Stays’, losing ‘Terminal’, and renewing ‘True Love’: As surprising as it may sound, spark Not a radical reinvention of Whitney From an honest account of what it feels like to move from the past to the present, as you take the next steps in your life and career all at once. spark Retains the warmth and ease of Whitney’s early work; These songs glow with modernity.
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