Freelance Whales play pop with oddball instruments | Haight

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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, and 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 album, Weathervanes, whose songs work at evoking a sense of dislocation, or sensory disorientation. These tunes invite the human spirit to exit the body, if only for brief moments.

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