Nov

21

2007

Coming out of Edmonton, Alberta is new psych-pop band you may want to check out. The Whitsundays features two members from “Shout Out Out Out Out.” The band will release their debut album via Friendly Fire Recordings (Asobi Seksu) here in the U.S. and Pop Echo Records in Canada on January 22, 2008. In the meantime, check out a track from their upcoming album below.

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    The main Whit, Paul Arnusch — who also logs time with starry post-rock supernauts Faunts and post-punk reduxers the Floor — called on his ever-expanding collection of vintage gear (from archaic guitars to Rhodes and Wurlitzers) to document a loose, passionate love letter to the past 40 years of “timeless music.” Of course, none of this backward-glancing praise is to say that Arnusch’s first offering with the Whitsundays sounds all that old. On the contrary, he manages to transport the antiqued sounds of the ’60s — walls of dreamy harmonies, straight-away drumming, boney guitars, whirring organs — across the same updated palates employed by bands like Dressy Bessy, Apples in Stereo, The Shins, and Belle & Sebastian.
    And while this is quite the departure for Arnusch, who is more used to pounding out labyrinthine experiments behind the kit for Faunts and 80’s-minded melodrama with the Floor than such lovely sock-hop simplicity, his experimental sensibilities still peek through on the Whitsundays’ self-titled debut album. In fact, these curiosities and quirks are perhaps the album’s strongest suit, tugging a set of super-sweet diner pop through the ages, and somehow updating it along the way.


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