Chicagolaiset kämppäkaverit Max Kakacek (kitara) ja Julien Erlich (laulu/rummut) perustivat Whitneyn eräänä talvisena päivänä, kun kotiin jumiutuneet miekkoset saivat aikaan kelvollista materiaalia sattumalta pitämissään ensimmäisissä soittosessioissa.
Ascendant Chicago band Whitneyhave announced their debut album, Light Upon the Lake, due out June 3rd on Secretly Canadian. This follows on the heels of recent inescapable single No Woman and a much talked about SXSW trip. Light Upon The Lake marks the culmination of a short, but incredibly intense, creative period for the band. To say that Whitney is more than the sum of its parts would be a criminal understatement.Formed from the core of guitarist Max Kakacek (ex-Smith Westerns) and singing drummer Julien Ehrlich (ex-Unknown Mortal Orchestra),the band itself is something bigger, something visionary, something neither of them could have accomplished alone.
