Freelance Whales - Generator ^ First Floor
We get up early just to start cranking the generator
Our limbs have been asleep we need to get the blood back in ‘em
We’re finding every day several ways that we could be friends
We keep on churning and the lights inside the house turn on
And in our native language we are chanting ancient songs
And when we quiet down the house chants on without us
Freelance Whales are my new favorite band. Period. Hailing from Queens, New York their album “Weathervanes” is a breath of fresh air to me. It’s the kind of music that just makes me happy. I promise you their album is worth checking out. If you liked the song I put on here, do yourself a favor and check out these songs by them: Broken Horse, Hannah, Generator ^ Second Floor.
Taken from their MySpace page: “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.”
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