‘Walk the Whale’ by Walk the Whale is an immersive indie alternative rock experience that features songs that move from bright to dark and back again. The album sounds like a meticulously crafted debut LP, with each element communicating and serving a clear, distinct emotion.
This in turn compliments the collection’s emotional through-line. Bright and hopeful melodies soon turn melancholic before the brightness returns. Only this time, it feels a bit weighted by the darkness that permeates through the tracklist.
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‘Walk the Whale’: Track-by-Track
‘Walk the Whale’: ‘Tides’ – ‘Ask For Help’
The album begins with the rushing of the ‘Tides’, a song that introduces bright, almost optimistic melodies. The soundscape begins by rushing in, like the coming of the tide, before the mood and tension releases as the tide recedes by song’s end.
‘Aquarium Love’ on the other hand, takes on a warm, almost soulful tone.The piano and guitar melodies introduced ‘Tides’ take on a new shade, that though still slow still pulls you in. “…Would you make me choose between the end of loving and a room at the bottom of the sea?…”. T here’s a sense of rejecting artifice on the track that feels haunting, “…aquarium love, behind the glass….let me out before I drown…”.
‘Here For You’ is a melancholy tune that feels fuelled by deep, spiralling feelings. Its soundscape feels immersed in shadow. In this world love is felt and expressed in solitude, with a sense of melancholy that feels slow, almost washed away.
“…I love you most when I’m feeling alone…”.
‘Pacified’ takes on a bit of this melancholy while injecting a little bit of light, bright nostalgia into the soundscape. From quiet melodies to loud, almost intense bursts by it’s refrain, the narrator reflects on the things most tend to avoid.
“…There’s writing on the wall…I try to look away…(but) have to face it someday…”. ‘Ask For Help’ takes on quiet piano and melody rhythms in tandem, while the narrator now wants things to change. “…Never figured out the right time to ask for help…”. The melodies on the track feel quiet and contemplative.
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‘Walk the Whale’: ‘Addiction’ – ‘Overboard’
‘Addiction’ takes on cascading melodies that feel a bit slow as the narrator ponders on what they’re addicted to. They land on their very being, their disposition, the core of their being, that seems to torment them.
“…My addiction is my disposition…It’s my affliction, I can’t find peace, I’ll go back to sleep…”. With these lines and soundscape, the song starts go down a downward spiral.
‘Smile’ is an expansive, almost dream-like track. One that feels contemplative with a dark edge. At its refrain, the melodies of ‘Smile’ begin to cascade, while our narrator starts to dissociate from where they are in a particular space and time.
“…Am I dead or alive?…”.
‘Abandon My Mind’ feels like denial, taking on the dream-like tone of the last song and ramping it up. There’s a dreariness to the rhythm that feels ominous, almost haunting. It almost feels as though we’re all in a collective daze.
“…Wake up, you’re sleeping…”.
‘Ghost’ uses its shuffling rhythms to inject the brightness that’s alluded the LP this whole time back into the collection. The melodies seem to start off slow and low, before the piano melodies begin to expand and meld with the emotional charge that seems to be simmering.
“...Hold me down till I’m ready to deliver what I have to lose…”. It’s a haunting surrender.
The final track on the album, ‘Overboard’ brings back the energetic brightness from ‘Tides’. Its weighted brightness comes with hard-won lessons. “…I guess it’s how I’m living…never let it out , hold it all in…”.
The song ends on a bright, energetic note that feels earned after a long, expansive journey.
‘Walk the Whale’: Conclusion
Walk the Whale’s self-titled LP takes its listener on an expansive journey that feels familiar and cathartic. A moving, haunting collection with songs that feel solid as individual tracks but become more as their messages and themes layer on top of eachother.
Bright, Moving, Melancholic and Light & Bright (with dark-edge again).
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