“Ehrlich and Kakacek successfully eke out what is depressingly victorious and ultimately pyrrhic about abandoning the homestead for the mirage of greener pastures.” – Pitchfork
“[Whitney]s friendship and songwriting partnership is coming into its prime.” – The Verge
“The beautiful arrangement of exultant horns, rhythmic twangy guitar layers, and subtle percussion smoothly soothes.” – Stereogum
“Whitney has made your go-to breezy indie album for spring” – VOGUE.com
“a sweet shot of beardly Seventies fools gold.” – Rolling Stone
Whitneys highly anticipated debut album, Light Upon The Lake, will be out next week on Secretly Canadian. Ahead of its release, theyre sharing another fantastic new single, No Matter Where We Go, along with an accompanying video directed by Alan Del Rio Oritz. Its the perfect must-hear anthem arriving just in time for summer.
Since releasing their first single, No Woman, in January and following it up with Golden Days after a much talked about SXSW, Whitney has proven to be one of the most exciting new bands of 2016. Both singles earned Pitchfork Best New Track honors and a flurry of additional press accolades. Their quick rise has landed them tours with Unknown Mortral Orchestra and Wild Nothing and several major festival plays including Governors Ball, Bonnaroo, Pitchfork Music Festival, Outside Lands, Oya, End Of The Road and more.
To say that Whitney is more than the sum of its parts would be a criminal understatement. Formed from the core of guitarist Max Kakacek (ex-Smith Westerns) and singing drummer Julien Ehrlich (ex-Unknown Mortal Orchestra),the band itself is something bigger, something visionary, something neither of them could have accomplished alone.
The ten songs on Light Upon the Lake sound like they could have been written at any time in the last fifty years. Ehrlich and Kakacek emerge as imaginative and insightful songwriting partners, impressive in their scope and restraint as they mold classic rock lyricism into new and personal shapes without sounding revivalist or retro.
Whitney will embark on their first major U.S. headline tour this summer in support of Light Upon the Lake. A full list of dates is below with more to be announced soon.
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WHITNEY TOUR DATES:
Tue. May 24 Edmonton, AB @ The Starlite Room w/ Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Wed. May 25 Calgary, AB @ Commonwealth Bar w/ Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Mon. May 30 Detroit, MI @ El Club
Tue. May 31 Cleveland, OH @ Mahalls
Wed. June 1 Albany, NY @ The Hollow
Fri. June 3 Brooklyn, NY @ Babys All Right (SOLD OUT)
Sat. June 4 Brooklyn, NY @ Market Hotel
Sun. June 5 New York, NY @ Governors Ball
Fri. June 10 Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival
Tue. June 14 London, UK @ Oslo Hackney
Wed. June 15 Manchester, UK @ Gullivers
Fri. June 17 Brussels, BL @ Botaniquw Rotonde
Sat. June 18 Paris, FR @ Point Ephemere
Sun. June 19 Hamburg, DE @ Molotow
Mon. June 20 Berlin, DE @ Sommerloft
Tue. June 21 Groningen, NL @ VERA
Wed. June 22 Amsterdam, NL @ OT301
Thu. June 23 Munster, DE @JuWi-Fest
Sat. June 25Beuningen, NL @Down The Rabbit Hole
Fri. July 1 Roskilde, DK @Roskilde Festival
Sat. July 9 Columbus, OH @ 4th & 4th Festival
Fri. July 15 Chicago, IL @ Pitchfork Music Festival
Fri. July 15 Chicago, IL @ The Empty Bottle (Pitchfork Aftershow)
Mon. July 18 St. Louis, MO @ Off Broadway
Tue. July 19 Lawrence, KS @ Bottleneck
Thu. July 21 Dallas, TX @ Dada
Fri. July 22 Austin, TX @ Sidewinder
Tue. July 26 Santa Fe, NM @ Meow Wolf
Wed. July 27 Denver, CO @ The UMS Launch Party at 3 Kings Tavern
Thu. July 28 Salt Lake City, UT @ Diabolic Records
Fri. July 29 Boise, ID @ Neurolux
Mon. Aug. 1 Vancouver, BC @ Cobalt
Tue. Aug. 2 Seattle, WA @ Sunset Tavern
Wed. Aug. 3 Portland, OR @ Holocene
Fri. Aug. 5 San Francisco, CA @ Outside Lands
Sat. Aug. 6 Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour
Tue. Aug. 9 Sat. Aug. 13 Oslo, NO @ Oya Festival
Thu. August 11Haldern, DE @Haldern Pop 2016
Fri. August 12Gothenburg, SE -Way Out West
Thu. Aug. 18 Sun. Aug. 21 Brecon, UK @ Green Man Festival
Fri. Aug. 19 Sun. Aug. 21 Biddinghuizen, NL @ Lowlands Festival
Fri. Sept. 2 Sat. Sept. 4 Larmer Tree Gardens, UK @ End Of The Road Festival
Sun. Sept. 4 Vlieland, NL @Into The Great Wide Open
Tue. Oct. 25 Cologne, DE @ Blue Shell
Wed. Oct. 26 Munich, DE @ Unter Deck
Thu. Oct. 27 St. Gallen, CH @ Palace
Fri. Oct. 28 Dudingen, CH @ Bad Bonn
Thu. Nov. 3 Brighton, UK @ The Haunt
Fri. Nov. 4 Nottingham, UK @ Bodega
Sat. Nov. 5 Glasgow, UK @ CCA
Sun. Nov. 6 Newcastle, UK @ Cluny
Tue. Nov. 8 Manchester, UK @ Gorilla
Wed. Nov. 9 Bristol, UK @ Thekla
Thu. Nov. 10 London, UK @ KOKO