Bubble: White Vinyl LP
FIRELP786WPre-Order Item. Release Date Subject to Change.
Label: Fire Records
Release Date: 12th September
Absolute psyched for a fresh Whitney K album and some new stories from the night time in the city cowboy. His voice coming off like an American Lou Reed, his music having a skip and a sparkle, his stories full of dark romance from the alleyways of life you're told to steer clear of.
For those who dig: Ryan Davis, David Berman, Nap Eyes, Mike Polizze, Cass McCombs, Kurt Vile, Big Billy Callahan...
Whitney K returns with ‘Bubble’, his first album for Fire Records and follow-up to 2022’s acclaimed ‘Hard To Be A God’. Whitney K continue his migrant mind games, summoning up a series of intriguing characters, littered with everyday foibles and fantasies.
Along the way, he pens a journal of possibilities as he travels further into transient America, touching on everything from bar room chatter, rumour and distortion to misinformation, daydreams, misunderstanding and self-realisation; with anecdotes lifted from the paperback in his back pocket and his half-forgotten past.
‘Bubble’ is a 13-part cerebral mystery that unravels on songs that bring to mind the gruff sentimentality of the late Kris Kristoferson, Lennon’s ‘Jealous Guy’, Eels at their most troubled and the American Gothic sketches of David Ackles; the perfect soundtrack for a Raymond Carver book club.