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To wit, the first song Max and Julien wrote upon returning to Chicago in May 2021-and the last one they finished before heading to Texas to cut SPARK with producers Brad Cook and John Congleton-is “REAL LOVE,” which celebrates the overdue end of one relationship as an opportunity to fall completely for the right someone. But the key to SPARK-even on these saddest of songs, all of which sparkle like gentle technicolor dreams-is sublimation, or Whitney’s ability to hang around long enough for conditions to improve. Max lost his grandfather to COVID-19 in December 2020, soon after the duo’s mutual mentor, Girls’ JR White, died. Max and Julien weren’t immune to this moment of overwhelming loss, either. “We were just stacking stronger and stronger songs on top of each other.” Max picks up his thought: “Our favorite way to make records, the way we made the first one.”Įven if the way was similar, the results are remarkably different, a refreshing reminder of how effortless a pivot can feel when it’s a true course correction. “We had time to just sit and watch the body of work grow in real time,” Julien says. For the next 14 months, they dug in with a zeal and determination that recalled their start, before success set expectations. Weeks after Julien decamped to Portland to clear his head after the end of a years-long relationship, Max followed, hoping to escape the tail of a long Chicago winter with his best friend and co-writer. Max and Julien knew a drastic change was necessary, but they never envisioned, of course, international lockdowns would facilitate it. They barely had enough material or energy to finish. This no longer felt like their music, but a vestige of their initial enthusiasm. “What are we doing? How do we fix this, together?” Max remembers often asking Julien, as they contended with broken tape machines that felt like metaphors. As the sessions progressed, though, they became a slog, as Julien and Max worked to be versions of themselves they no longer were, to write songs in a mold that no longer fit.
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Its softly distorted psych-folk dreams found a wide audience more readily than the pair ever expected after years of ceaseless touring, they felt compelled to plug into the same sound for round two, 2019’s Forever Turned Around. The start of SPARK traces back to the surprise success of Whitney’s 2016 debut, Light Upon the Lake. SPARK maintains the warmth and ease of Whitney’s early work these songs glow with the newness of now. However surprising it may sound, SPARK is less a radical reinvention for Whitney than an honest accounting of how it feels when you move out of your past and into your present, when you take the next steps of your lives and careers at once and without apology. SPARK reintroduces Whitney as a contemporary syndicate of classic pop, its dozen imaginative and endearing tracks wrap fetching melodies around paisley-print Dilla beats and luxuriant electronics. The Crackdown Project, Vol.Whitney, the Chicago duo of Julien Ehlrich and Max Kakacek, return with their third album, SPARK. Honey (including original demos and unreleased songs) Undisco Me (Official Single With Added Mixes) The Berlin Years - 1 (Billie and the Deep live at KOB 1986) Sacred Knowledge of Ancient Civilizationsĭeadline For My Memories (with german and american bonus tracks)
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Khooman - The Depths - CD album demo - 2012ĭulcet Series Special Collection - The Sun of Blue Winterĭulcet Series Winter Special Collection - Fantastic Winter Journeyĭulcet Series Summer Special Collection 2nd - Lost Time and Lost Memoryĭulcet Series presents Vol 2: Same Misty Dreamsĭulcet Series presents Vol1 differences artistic conceptionĭulcet Series Spring Special Collection: Unique Encounter by Fateĭulcet Series Summer Special Collection - Still The Missing Memories Mystery School (remastered with bonus EP)ĭISTORTED MINDS IN A SICK WORLD (4way split) - 12" :-PĬollecting the Spirits (alternate version) Many of them are completely different "bands" with the same name, unfortunately. Here is a list I've generated of bandcamp artist names that match artist names in my collection. Some artists have released old and unreleased material on the internet, sometimes for free.