Freelance Whales

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.