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White Whale

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When Matt Suggs (who was in the '90s indie rock duo Butterglory) wanted a touring band for his 2003 solo album, Amigo Row, he looked no further than former Higher Burning Fire members and fellow Kansans John Anderson, Dustin Than Kinsey, and Zach Holland for help, with whom he had been playing on and off since 2000. They got along together so well that they decided to form their own band, White… Read more in Amazon's White Whale Store

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Audio CD (July 25, 2006)
Original Release Date: July 25, 2006
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Merge Records
ASIN: B000FUF8A2
In-Print Editions: MP3 Download

Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #227,035 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Subjects can overcome the moment, while styles can quietly and seemingly by some consensus, start to dominate. So it is that indie rock's turned toward the literary and historical narrative, via Okkervil River, the Decemberists, the Arcade Fire, and now, Lawrence, Kansas's White Whale. Maybe this is the same current that made punk rock a "safe" study for academics in the late-'90s--a current that puts grad students in rock bands. As it relates to White Whale, the literary/historical turn here is grandly set against minor-key, piano-colored tunes that feature mixed choruses that'll delight Arcade Fire fans (along with fans of bands who share members with WW--the Get-Up Kids, Butterglory, and Thee Higher Burning Fire). There are exclamatory, epic sweeps aplenty here--as when singer Matt Suggs intones "And who throws parties like these anymore? / Did they not go out of fashion before the war?" The tunes here do stand out, but they bog down in their lyrical weight, something a great book rarely does. --Andrew Bartlett

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This is the new band of Matt Suggs (Butterglory), Rob Pope (The Get Up Kids), and members of Thee Higher Burning Fire. Amassing the power of Big Star with the fury of Black Sabbath and the mesmerizing wiles of Badfinger. This is their debut.


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4.0 out of 5 stars Punch and Intriguing, July 25, 2006

By	William Block "Twisted Coil of Misfiring Syna... (Decatur, Al) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Having never heard of these guys before, I was pleasantly surprised as I listened to it. It has a early Kinks flavor to it, (which I like) so it feels a bit retro. I must give kudos to the producer, as he obviously contributed a lot of the extra flourishes that make this album so interesting to listen to. The melodies are great, but I can't get Ray Davies out of my head. I gave it a four, just because it is so unique. It gets better as it goes along, and has an overall cohesiveness to it that should make it enjoyable for all. If you like Neutral Milk Hotel, you will probably enjoy this album as well...

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5.0 out of 5 stars Why isn't there more hype?, August 11, 2006

By	J Scotty "Total Chicken" (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews

I had read a few reviews of this before I bought it and they were all basically mediocre or slightly above average. Despite a member of the Get Up Kids being in the band, they rock with a sincerity and style of Crooked Fingers/Arcade Fire/Band of Horses and probably a few more bands I can't think of at the moment. Perhaps a little bit of Neutral Milk Hotel. Although, maybe I'm just reeling from the first few listens. All in all, Matt Suggs' voice and credibility bring this all together. Butterglory never had this much energy, but they did offer a clever line here and there ("the halo over your head...turned out to be horns instead"). It's got a sea-faring charm with some sincerity and I find it hard to see through them.
Which I can't say the same for Margot and the Nuclear So and So's.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Jambase.com review, September 22, 2006

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Side project or a super group? Such is not determined, but the listeners can decide for themselves. Lawrence, Kansas's White Whale features vocalist Matt Suggs of Butterglory, bassist Rob Pope of mope masters The Get Up Kids, as well as John Anderson, Zach Holland, and Dustin Kinsey of The Higher Burning Fire. They come from a state of being where they're not in Kansas anymore, Toto, as their debut release is epic, dramatic, and cinematic but not too much. They obviously contain the Peter Pan complex of the Arcade Fire while coming off as if it was the Decemberists who made OK Computer while on a field trip to The Village Green Preservation Society.

"O'William, O'Sarah" is a seven-minute-plus passage down a lane of mood swings that remains rousing and rollicking with its fuzzy organ lines. "The Admiral" is like a heavy chamber pop amelioration given to a Gilbert and Sullivan tune with a hair-raising choral breakdown, while the deep-water ambience that floods numbers like "I Love Lovely Chinese Gal" makes it seem as if White Whale has just stumbled upon the lost kingdom of Atlantis. "What's an Ocean For" is rather quaint in the manner in which it galvanizes the listener as "We're Just Temporary Ma'am" is tantamount to a crescendo sea chantey that a crew of tipsy nineteenth century sailors would sing around a bottle.

Be it instrumentally or vocally, WWI is delivered with tepid fervor on all fronts. It's the end of the world as White Whale knows it, but they feel fine, Matey.

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Butterglory, blah blah blah. Nobody here has yet mentioned that Matt Suggs made two solo albums since Butterglory's last album, which by the way was in 1997, 10 years ago. Read more

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