Freelance Whales

"Band To Watch" - "There's palpable warmth and tactful touch that crackles throughout their strongest tunes's group chants, harmonies, that should prove irresistible..." - Stereogum

"The band's varied indie-pop has a humble, homespun quality to it. They lean on banjos and xylophones for tender rural sounds to a good effect.” - Brooklyn Vegan

"Freelance Whales: Busking to the Big Time" - WXPN

"This is the band to watch this year" - NPR @ SXSW

"It's awash with gentle, naive bliss, and if you're the type that likes to observe hooks blossoming with the pace of an actual flower opening, then you might have just found a new favourite band." - NME

“Freelance Whales use banjo, harmonium, cello, glockenspiel, synthesizers and guitars to create something that sounds a lot like pure joy.” - Paste Magazine

"A folk-stitched dream pop band is probably the last thing you’d imagine would come out of Queens, New York. Despite the city’s notorious jazz scene, the Freelance Whales found enough inspiration to create an explosion of sensory stimulated music with their self-released debut, Weathervanes (hit single “Generator ^ Second Floor” featured on KEXP’s Song of the Day). Between harmonium, glockenspiel, banjo, synthesizers and waterphone, the five-member bliss band is no doubt making some noise in the music world. Playing on sidewalks, in train stations and at simple New York City venues more often than not, it’s about time the Whales play a proper showcase like SXSW." - KEXP

RIYL: Broken Bells, Fanfarlo, Edward Sharpe
TRY: #1, 2, 5

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