The Daily Spin, June 25
WHALES TALK | Eternal Sunshine
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Album: Eternal Sunshine (2023)
Artist: WHALES TALK
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Short, sweet, and to the point, just how I like my EPs.
Clay James - better known as WHALES TALK - first popped onto my radar via the web show Sugar Pine 7, on which he played a dramatized version of himself for a few years prior to that show’s eventual end. One of the eternal E-plots was the musical talent that each of the main cast possessed, and while they made music together as Sugar Pine 7, the time afterwards has particularly allowed James (as WHALES TALK) and main figurehead Steven Suptic (as SUGR?) to shine.
2021’s DID I RLY LET GO remains my absolute favorite work that James has put out, but this EP, at its best, hits a lot of those highs. Full of pretty bombastic production, it definitely wobbles into overshadowing vocals with the production, but it’s all the sort of music that’ll get your head bobbing along. He’s at his best when he’s somewhere on the spectrum with Two Door Cinema Club, PALMSY, and Vinyl Theatre, and the opener of this EP is probably about as close as we get.
It’s good, it’s catchy, and I find myself coming back to it really often for it being 18 minutes of music. That’s a good album.
Rating: 8.6/10
Best Tracks: Love Me (When You’re Gone); Mission to Mars
Worst Tracks: Ugly Tears