Tour Dates
10/4 Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall
10/5 Minneapolis, MI - 7th St Entry
10/6 Madison, WI – Redamte
10/7 Iowa City - Maintenance Shop
10/10 Dallas, TX – Trees
10/11 Houston, TX – Fitzgerald's
10/13 Mexico City, MX - Corona Festival
10/14 Austin, TX - Austin City Limits
10/16 Los Angeles, CA - El Rey
10/18 San Francisco, CA – Mezzanine
10/20 Portland, OR - Doug Fir
10/21 Seattle, WA - Chop Suey
10/23 Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court
10/24 Denver, CO – Bluebird
10/26 St. Louis, MO – Firebird
10/27 Nashville, TN - The End
10/28 Atlanta, GA - The Loft
10/30 Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506
10/31 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
11/1 New York, NY - Webster Hall
11/2 Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer
11/3 Boston, MA - Paradise
'Diluvia' Tracklisting
1. Aeolus
2. Land Features
3. Follow Through
4. Spitting Image
5. Locked Out
6. Dig Into Waves
7. Red Star
8. Winter Seeds
9. The Nothing
10. DNA Bank
11. Emergence Exit
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On
Monday, October 1st at 7:30pm Freelance Whales will perform live from
the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn, New York, only a few blocks from the
Bedford L train stop that played host to their early intimate platform
performances. The band will be playing Diluvia, their
eagerly-anticipated follow-up to Weathervanes, in its entirety. The
event is non-ticketed, and exclusive to fans and friends of the band.
Details on how fans can catch the show in person will be unveiled on
the band's Facebook page the morning of Monday, October 1st. But rest
assured, anyone who doesn't score tickets can still watch the
performance in its entirety on Livestream. Tune in on Monday, October 1st at 7:30pm for the performance.
After
two years and over a dozen tours, Freelance Whales were feeling
road-worn and eager to rediscover their creative process. They had been
building on the grassroots appeal of their earthy debut, Weathervanes,
for tens of thousands of miles. To tare the scale, the band embarked on
a many faceted journey during which they found themselves isolated in
West Kill, sprawled with their instruments in Hoboken, and packed into
studios in Brooklyn and Manhattan. What resulted from nearly a year’s
worth of creative productivity is the group’s second full-length, Codec
Diluvia (out October 9th on Mom+Pop/French Kiss).
Whereas
Weathervanes was delivered from the perspective of a child infatuated
with ayoung female ghost, Diluvia is a record about the possible
survival – or peril – of space- faring humans and other arguably
fantastical scenarios. Curiosity over these unknowns has evolved into
notions of space exploration, ancient astronauts, dreams, and natural
and artificial selection, with new songs building to expansive,
atmospheric destinations. Working to evoke both prehistoric and
pseudo-futuristic sensations, the record invites listeners to indulge
in more elastic thought, perhaps, than it's predecessor.
Diluvia,
which was recorded over two months in New York City with producer Shane
Stoneback, also finds Freelance Whales – Judah Dadone (vocals, guitar,
banjo, synthesizers), Doris Cellar (bass, vocals), Chuck Criss (guitar,
synthesizers, vocals), Jacob Hyman (drums, vocals), and Kevin Read
(guitar, vocals) – exploring new instrumental experiences by blurring
their trademark “organic” instruments with liberaluse of electronics
and more aggressive rhythm. They may sound bigger, but Freelance Whales
are no less committed to capturing intimacy though their music. Diluvia
is an experiment in finding the confluence between science and emotion.
Their hypothesis is that such a cathartic place exists, for both
themselves and their fans, and it can be found somewhere in their new
music.
Recent Press Quotes
Consequence
of Sound: "In the vein of lead single “Locked Out”, the second single,
“Spitting Image”, is another demonstration of the band’s newly expanded
sound, a grand, electronica-leaning cut of pure ecstasy."
Filter
Magazine : "While the band’s trademark sound only previously flirted
with electronics, the LP’s lead single, “Locked Out”, turns that
relationship in full-fledged marriage".
Pretty
Much Amazing : "First single “Locked Out,” Freelance Whales show that
they’ve perked their ears up to their surroundings and are heading in
an interesting direction."
Stereogum : “Locked Out" is exactly the sort of layered, romantic stuff that the band built its name on"
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