Whitley
| Tour 11/17/07 Cambridge Newcastle, NS Wales[1] 11/18/07 Brass Monkey Cronulla, NS Wales[1] 12/11/07 The Zoo Brisbane 12/12/08 Spectrum Sydney 12/18/08 The Corner Hotel Melbourne[2] 12/29/08 FEELGOOD FESTIVAL Sydney 12/30/08 FALLS FEST Marion Bay, Tasmania 12/31/08 FALLS FESTIVAL Lorne, Victoria Discography
Band Members
Influence/Sounds Like Ben Kwellers, Elliott Smith, Sufjan Stevens, Bjork, The Grates, Zach Braff Footnotes |
Whitley is an emerging Australian independent artist on the same label (Dew Process) as hyperpop darlings The Grates. He released his debut album, ‘The Submarine’, earlier this year, and is playing in many of the folkier festivals of the upcoming Australian summer.
If Zach Braff ever comes across his music, he’ll be on the soundtrack of a Gen-Y film about disconnection, off-beat humour and whimsical loneliness before you can say ‘indie folk’. He has the slow hushed melodies and the acoustic sadness of the Ben Kwellers and Elliott Smiths of the music world. The buzz around him has been building slowly (he turned up, slightly inexplicably, in Australian Vogue, looking brooding with an owl on his shoulder), and 2008 may be his hallmark year, so discover him quickly so you can claim you were onto a big thing before everybody else.
His confidence is exemplified by his steady, sweetly muted remake of Bjork’s intensely complex ‘Hyperballad’ for a compilation called ‘No Man’s Woman’, which involved Australian male singers and bands covering songs which originally had female vocalists (Powderfinger, for instance, did Portishead’s ‘Glory Box’). You can find it on his Myspace page.
‘I Remember’ is my favourite track of his- like a pared-down Sufjan Stevens song, to be played when driving alone at night, or while staring pensively out the window at age twenty-five, wondering about the vagaries of life.
11/16/2007 23:45:19
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