Forever Turned Around

‘Forever Turned Around’ came together over several sessions across the country. Though Julien Ehrlich is Whitney’s lead singing drummer while Max Kakacek is the lead guitarist, when writing, both transcend their roles to piece together each offering lyrically and compositionally. “The way it ends up working is one of us comes up with a basic idea for a song and the other person serves as the foil to complicate that idea. We ask, ‘What can we change to make it more interesting?’” says Kakacek. Challenging each other is the core of their songwriting partnership. It’s these risks and experiments that make ‘Forever Turned Around’ a triumph. After a session with producers Bradley Cook (Hand Habits, Hiss Golden Messenger) and Jonathan Rado (Weyes Blood, Father John Misty) helped colour in the arrangements, the album truly revealed itself when they reunited with original rhythm guitarist Ziyad Asrar in his basement Chicago studio - the same place where they hashed out much of their critically acclaimed 2016 debut, ‘Light Upon The Lake’. Restlessness is at the heart of Whitney’s resonant and stunning sophomore album. As Ehrlich and Kakacek realized, life can change almost instantly. Priorities shift, relationships evolve, home can become far away and even when luck momentarily works out, there’s still that underlying search for something better. Happiness can be fleeting but this album proves that even when it feels like time is turning on its head and there’s either a moment of clar

Tracks

1~1~Giving Up
1~2~Used To Be Lonely
1~3~Before I Know It
1~4~Song For Ty
1~5~Valleys (My Love)
2~1~Rhododendron
2~2~My Life Alone
2~3~Day & Night
2~4~Friend Of Mine
2~5~Forever Turned Around

Details

Format: Vinyl
Artist: Whitney
Release Date: 30 August 2019
Genre: Alternative
Label: Secretly Canadian
Distributor: Inertia Music