Contact: Band / General: thefreelancewhales@gmail.com Management: Andrew McInnes: onceinarowmgmt@gmail.com Legal: David Jacobs: davidjacobs@markmml.com US Booking: Heather Kolker: hkolker@paradigmagency.com UK Booking: David Exley: david@CodaAgency.com
Freelance Whales found one another in late 2008, in Queens, amidst a strange amalgam of unfamiliar instruments, and precariously arranged pop songs. Using whatever musical gadgets they happened upon (mostly harmonium, banjo, glockenspiel, synthesizers, guitars, bass, drums, waterphone), the five members worked at crafting songs with interlocking rhythmic patterns, lush textural layering, and an engaged group-vocal energy. The result is their debut LP, weathervanes, whose songs work at evoking a sense of dislocation, or sensory disorientation. They invite the human spirit to exit the body, if only for brief moments. Freelance Whales can be spotted in the streets and humble venues of New York City, and in due time, elsewhere.
"Freelance Whales have managed to channel something eerie, dreamlike, and seemingly autonomous – the sum of the players being much more than each individual part" - Mark Steffen, HEAVEmedia
"Amazingly, Freelance Whales are even more arresting live than they are on record. They exhibit the exuberance of a young band that feels lucky to be sharing ideas with their audience" - Leo Maymind, Earfarm
"It just doesn’t feel like kids we grew up with should be this free, so we figure this five-piece has been transported from some alternate universe or simpler time when being gleeful was more important than anything else." - RCRD LBL
"It's awash with gentle, naive bliss, and if you're the type that likes to observe hooks blossoming with the pace of an actual flower opening, then you might have just found a new favourite band." - NME
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Hey Your track “Generator Second Floor” features on my show on Dandelion Radio.... ....the show broadcasts for the whole of September as part of a schedule of DJ shows.... :-) www.dandelionradio.com - The online radio station inspired by John Peel
Can't wait to see you guys the 1st of October in Bowling Green, Ky. It's a smaller town, but I'm telling everybody i know to come and listen to you guys and fall in love. Seriously-- can't wait. And that is all
Hey! My names Michaela, and I live in Alaska! I just wanted to thank you guys for the autographs! Hahahaha I wasnt there when you signed it, but my friend went to one of your shows in Boulder and met you guys after, chatted, and asked you to sign it! (: It made my day! Thank you so much! :D
I was hanging up posters last night for Freelance Whales, and I'm pretty sure it was the singer that asked me for a poster. Sorry I'm dumb and didn't know who you were. BTW, you were right, Freelance Whales is amazing live :)
Rock to Cure Cancer in Honor of Joey Ramone - NYC Show!
Mark your calendar -- two nights of awesome punk & rock in honor of our fallen friend Joey Ramone! All door receipts after expenses go to benefit the Lymphoma Research Foundation; it's a great cause, so bring all your friends!!
When: August 27-28, 7PM
Where: Don Hill's 511 Greenwich St. at Spring St. New York, NY 212-219-2850
Directions to Don Hill's: http://www.donhills.com/pages/directions.htm
$10 at the door
Friday: Lars-Einar Buolas (Sweden) Freedomhead Status Joe The Dirty Pearls
Saturday: The ReWd OnEZ The Baghdaddios Bad Whoremoans Michale Graves Band
Join the Rock to Cure Cancer in Honor of Joey Ramone Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=149896658363
i'm so happy i got your cd. it is so good :DD i love it, i cant stop listening to it. i can't believe you guys only have like 4,000 friends,you need to be up in the 50,000's and then i watched you guys perform ghosting on the video, and what do you know... you're amazing live too haha :D
you guys should come to indiana, and i would love to open for you or something :]]]
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I just discovered you guys on Xm Alt Nation. I immediately fell in love. Do you guys ever play xbox on tour? If you do, I'd love to play with you. My gamertag is InvisibleJello. Kay, awesome.
