This is an album that I listened to a while back but have recently rediscovered. If you have not yet checked this out you need to!
"Weathervanes" the first and only full album from "Freelance Whales", a band started in 2008 and very heavily connected with the hipster movement in Williamsburg New York. The album hit stores in April of 2010. The album produced a few singles and had a fair amount of success.
Now.. with all that said I had listened to this album via friend request when it first came out and I liked it but I have in the last week found myself drawn back to this great album. This album is kind of your basic "Indie Rock" album. It features a lot of interesting keyboard sound, lots of generic but interesting vocals, and some very complex Radiohead like drum parts. This album also makes a very interesting use of a banjo as well. I enjoyed this bit very much. I would say that for sure some tracks on this album are better than others but as a whole there are no real "Bad Tracks" found on this record. Tracks that really stuck out to me were "Broken Horse", "Ghosting", and "Generator second floor". But I do like all the songs found on this album. The record as a whole creates a few different moods really well. There are times of the record when true sense of sadness comes out but there are also points of happiness. This is the only problem I have with this record. The flow of it as a whole feels a bit wacky. The placement of songs could have been better thought out. Songs showing a happy mood are found next to songs pushing the sadder mood of the album. This really makes the record as a whole somewhat weird to listen to all the way through.
I love this record very, very much and look forward to more from freelance whales in the future. If you find this album not you the first time through give it a second listen. I would give it a strong 8/10.
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
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