Freelance Whales are really just collectors, at heart. They don’t really fancy buffalo nickels or Victorian furniture, but over the past two years, they’ve been collecting instruments, ghost stories, and dream-logs. Somehow, from this strange compost heap of strange sounds and quiet thoughts, songs started to rise up like steam from the ground. Swirling with organic and synthetic textures, interlocking rhythmic patterns, and light harmonic vocals, Weathervanes, the groups debut LP, works to tell a simple, pre-adolescent love story: a young male falls in love with a spectral young femme who haunts his childhood home. He chases her in his dreams but finds her to be mostly elusive. He imagines her alive, and wonders if someday he’ll take on her responsibilities of ghosting, or if maybe he’ll join her, elsewhere. Freelance Whales have taken to city streets, subway platforms, and stages with their swirling nostalgia. Many people who found them playing in those public spaces managed to forget what train they were supposed to take. And so, after playing in New York City, almost exclusively for about a year, they embarked on their first tour of the United States and Canada. They saw buffalos on hilltops, armies of windmills and people who let music run their blood in reverse.
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TRACK LISTING
1 Generator (1st Floor) 3:07
2 Hannah 3:38
3 Location 4:38
4 Channels 1:18
5 Starring 3:34
6 Kilojoules 3:19
7 Broken Horse 4:38
8 Danse Flat 1:15
9 Ghosting 5:19
10 We Could Be Friends 4:13
11 Vessels 1:44
12 Generator (2nd Floor) 4:31
13 The Great Estates 4:01
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