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
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
'GENERATOR ^ FIRST FLOOR' live on The Social Radio Show on Wed 25th Nov '09!!
I downloaded 'Generator ^ First Floor' and I thought it was such a fantastic song it's a featured track for my radio show which is due to be aired here in the UK on Wednesday 25th Nov '09 from 18:30 to 20:30 on ICR FM. It's broadcast in the Ipswich, Suffolk area on 105.7 FM or worldwide online at www.icrfm.co.uk - this is also available on 'listen again' via the website for a week after the show is broadcast live.
I wish you every success for the future, and if you keep writing music like this then The Social will be backing you all the way! And if you ever want me to showcase any new material then please feel free to contact me!
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