Whitney have announced a new album. The Chicago-based band led by Max Kakacek and Julien Ehrlich will release Small Talk on November 7 via AWAL. The group has also shared the single “Dandelions,” with an accompanying music video directed by Alexa and Jessica Viscius. Watch it below.
“A couple years ago, Max and I were both on the brink of moving across the country to be closer to the people we were dating at the time,” Ehrlich said of his new song’s origins in a press statement. “Over the span of a few months, both relationships somewhat abruptly crumbled, leaving us with equal parts confusion and sadness, mourning the futures that would have accompanied those relationships, as well as the relationships themselves. Inspired by those events (and on a whim of Midwestern pride), we wound up spinning the story of ‘Dandelions’ into one of a big city hopeful who gets chewed up and spit back out into the heartland.”
Small Talk marks Whitney’s fourth studio album and follow-up to 2022’s Spark. Earlier this year, Kakacek and Ehrlich shared the song “Darling,” which also appears on the new album. Whitney are currently on tour and will remain on the road through mid-August.
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Small Talk:
01 Silent Exchange
02 Won’t You Speak Your Mind
03 The Thread
04 Damage
05 Dandelions
06 Islands (Really Something)
07 In the Saddle
08 Evangeline [ft. Madison Cunningham]
09 Back to the Wind
10 Small Talk
11 Darling
