Light Upon the Lake
| Light Upon the Lake | |
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| Studio album by Whitney | |
| Released | June 3, 2016 |
| Recorded | 2015 |
| Studio | Jonathan Rado's house in Los Angeles |
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| Length | 29:58 |
| Label | Secretly Canadian |
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| Singles from Light Upon the Lake | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 83/100 |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| Clash | 9/10 |
| Consequence of Sound | B+ |
| The Guardian | |
| NME | 4/5 |
| Paste | 8.5/10 |
| Pitchfork | 8.3/10 |
| PopMatters |   |
Light Upon the Lake is the debut studio album by American rock band Whitney, released on June 3, 2016 on Secretly Canadian.
The album is Max Kakacek and Julien Ehrlich's first release since the breakup of their previous band, Smith Westerns, for which Kakacek was the guitarist and Ehrlich was the drummer. Ehrlich was also formerly the drummer of the band Unknown Mortal Orchestra.
Light Upon the Lake was written during the winter in the band's hometown of Chicago, Illinois and was recorded in the San Fernando Valley in California with Foxygen member Jonathan Rado, who also produced the album along with the band. The band joined Rado at his home in Los Angeles and slept in tents in his backyard.
The album was preceded by the singles "No Woman," "Golden Days," and "No Matter Where We Go". Each single was released alongside a music video.
Light Upon the Lake received wide acclaim from contemporary music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 83, based on 18 reviews, which indicates "universal acclaim".
Nikki Volpicelli of Paste praised the album, stating, "Sure, literally speaking all of the songs off of Light Upon the Lake conjure up failure to maintain a relationship with a loved one, but how can you relate a new band’s debut record—and one that’s so so fully realized to the point of even having a mission statement in the Whitney, as a man, as a writing prompt and concept—with a break up? If anything, it’s the start of something new." Matthew Schnipper of Pitchfork gave the album a favorable review, stating, "Whitney might not reinvent anything, but they sound perfect right now, and it’s hard to argue with being in the right place at the right time."
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