After their buzzy 2016 debut, whitneytheband experienced tons of changes. But some things stayed exactly the same. Max Kakacek talks to us about how those shifts shone through on 'Forever Turned Around':
for Whitney’s first-ever single, “No Woman,” arrived in January 2016, about six months before their debut album. In it, Julien Ehrlich, Max Kakacek and their bandmates occupy a misty wintry scene: log cabin, roaring bonfire, low-hanging fog, a thick carpet of brown leaves. Appearing totally at ease, the jacket-clad gang of guys throw axes at trees, stink bombs at the pond and PBR cans at one another.
For Kakacek, the Chicago outfit’s lead guitarist who mostly stuck to his tool of choice on LP1, that meant writing more songs on the piano for, the band’s sophomore album out now on Secretly Canadian. And Ehrlich, the rare drummer-and-lead-singer-in-one, flirted with guitar. “So it was a lot more fluid in that way—having been playing the same instrument for like three years straight and feeling kind of limited by them I guess,” Kakacek says.
When Whitney broke out in the music world circa 2016, the press—and the band themselves—often described that oxymoronic sound as something along the lines of “country soul,” which, considering the album’s gigantic horn arrangements, weepy twang and rhythmic tempo, was not an unfair tag. But it doesn’t feel quite right for this record. And while Whitney hold court with indie rock fans, “rock” just isn’t the word either. It’s a good thing Kakacek and Ehrlich don’t really care.
Even the recording process was split between three different locales. Kakacek broke it down like this: “30% was probably recorded with [producer Jonathan Rado] in California, another 30% in Eau Claire with [producer Bradley Cook] and the other 40% was in Chicago, in a basement.” “The amount of people that were at our stage was really surprising, and all of us were shocked and happy,” Kakacek says. “I felt like I was stoned the entire time just ‘cause it was so surreal.”
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