Forever Turned Around

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AlbumAug 30 / 201910 songs, 32m 26s
Indie Pop Indie Folk
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7.8 / 10

The Chicago band’s second album dials back their beaming, golden-hour soft rock to a gentle lull.

8 / 10

Whitney sound like a band who are exactly where they should be

On the Chicago duo's second album, the sun sets and the past comes into focus for set of familiar and lush country-tinged diary entries

8.2 / 10

We’re not asking Whitney to soundtrack a raging rebellion, we just want them to make us feel things.

On their breakthrough debut, 2016's Light Upon the Lake, Whitney introduced their dulcet, country-inflected songs via a seven-piece led by the gentle falsetto of singer/drummer Julien Ehrlich.

Whitney's new album represents the nuanced progression of an admirably subtle band.

7 / 10

Smith Westerns could've been the peak for guitarist Max Kakacek and drummer Julien Ehrlich; the buzzy Chicago band disbanded at the height o...

Like lances of morning light gazing through white wooden cracks of a sun stained window ledge, Chicago’s Whitney make music to feel the essential kind of sad to.

6.5 / 10

It seems it would be sacrilege for Whitney to release an album in a season other than summer. The Chicago six-piece's 2016 debut album, Light Upon the Lake, seamlessly incorporated a bright, jammy, but somewhat sluggish country-rock ambiance, the sound of

7 / 10

Chicago's Whitney return with second album Forever Turned Around – richly tumbling hymns that excel in friendship and familiarity.

8.0 / 10

Leslie Chu reviews Chicago duo Whitney's second album, Forever Turned Around. The duo hit a soft spot more tender than their 2016 debut, Light Upon the Lake

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A subtle but beautiful return for the Chicago natives. Music review by Owen Richards

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