SPARK

Limited LP : Milky White Coloured Vinyl

Julien Ehrlich and Max Kakacek could hear the staggering differences in the songs they
were writing for their third album as Whitney, SPARK—the buoyant drum loops, the effortless falsetto hooks, the coruscant keyboard lines. They suddenly sounded like a band reimagined, their once-ramshackle folk-pop now brimming with unprecedented gusto and sheen. But could they see it, too?

So in the ad hoc studio the Chicago duo built in the living room of their rented Portland
bungalow, a shared 2020 escape hatch amid breakups and lockdowns, Julien and Max decided to find out.

SPARK reintroduces Whitney as a contemporary syndicate of classic pop, its dozen imaginative and endearing tracks wrapping fetching melodies around paisley-print Dilla beats and luxuriant electronics. What’s more, Whitney reduces three years of extreme emotional highs and lows into 38 brisk but deep minutes, each of these 12 tracks a singable lesson in what it is they (and, really, we) have all survived. 

1) NOTHING REMAINS
2) BACK THEN
3) BLUE
4) TWIRL
5) REAL LOVE
6) MEMORY
7) SELF
8) NEVER CROSSED MY MIND
9) TERMINAL
10) HEART WILL BEAT
11) LOST CONTROL
12) COUNTY LINES

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5WBkdEhs90