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From: "lauree mcardle" <wordtravelsfast@gmail.com>
To: <audities@smoe.org>; <fluff-list@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2008 12:43 PM
Subject: The Whitsundays


> http://www.myspace.com/thewhitsundays
>
> can anyone tell me about them? diggin' a few of these tunes...

They're from Edmonton, Alberta and they're something of a supergroup: 
the singer/songwriter is from an indie band called the Faunts and the 
rhythm section is from a quite LCD Soundsystem-like band called Shout 
Out Out Out Out. Pretty much the whole album sounds like the songs on 
the Myspace page: there are a lot of direct cops from the Zombies 
(lots of breathy vocals and electric piano solos), but overall, they 
mostly sound kind of like Belle and Sebastian.  I like the album on 
the whole, but there are aspects that bug me a bit, especially the 
decision to bury all the vocals in reverb.

S