Mar 12 2010
Freelance Whales – Weathervanes
Freelance Whales
Weathervanes
Frenchkiss; 2010
As I’m sure that many other music critics reviewing this record will note, Weathervanes veritably swims with the sounds of Sufjan Stevens, Postal Service, and Death Can for Cutie. It’s impossible to get past those sonic touchstones when banjos, organs, accordions, bells, xylophones, programmed beats, and a pristine, clear tenor are ringing into your ears. But I’d rather lay down another basis of comparison here in that this outfit is a bona-fide anti-Owl City. Whereas that latter bit of musical huckster-ism has rightly been exposed for being the sham it always was, the music of Freelance Whales actively resists the quaintly cutesy tag by actually being able to twist popular motifs with a measure of real creativity.
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