With their new album Enjoy The Company, The Whigs have created a raucous
ode to rock and roll. From the opening track, an exhilarating eight-minute
mission statement called “Staying Alive,” the record offers a powerful sonic
rendering of a band opening up to the depth of their past and kicking open the
doors to their future. But most of all, this is the undeniably established sound of
a band affirming their legacy in the American rock and roll paradigm.
While The Whigs recorded their second record Mission Control at famed Sunset
Sound Studios in Hollywood and their third release In The Dark in Athens, the
making of Enjoy The Company was a dramatically different affair. This time the
group sought the guidance of veteran producer John Agnello (Dinosaur Jr, Son
Volt, Sonic Youth) and the solitude of Dreamland Studios housed in a historic
church in rural Woodstock, New York. “We went out there to record without any
distractions,” bassist Timothy Deaux explains. “There were no girlfriends there,
no bars to go out to. It was just us and the music. Our last album focused on
some pretty dark themes and with this one I think there’s a newfound sense of
optimism and purpose. We didn’t make a sugary record, but I think we are
honestly feeling good about the band and our lives and it comes across in the
sound.”
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