Artist: Let’s Whisper
Title: The Year Of Getting High
Format: Digital single
Cat#: Fika092SG2
Release date: 12th July 2022
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The name “Let’s Whisper” implies secrets—the sorts of things you’d tell friends in a night’s waning hours, as the sun is about to peek over the horizon. Colin Clary and Dana Kaplan have been friends and musical collaborators for years, and the openhearted, detail-rich indiepop they craft together reflects their rich creative relationship and trust in each other. On The In-Between Times, the second Let’s Whisper full-length—the band’s first release in eight years, and first as a five-piece—the Burlington-based band digs deeper into their day-to-day worlds while confronting their individual and collective futures.
Following on from recent single The Thing That Defines You (the first new music from Let’s Whisper since 2014), The Year Of Getting High is the second track taken from the forthcoming album The In-Between Times (out August 2022), this time showcasing the songwriting nous of Dana Kaplan:
“As a kid (and actually into my early adult years) I was always really only able to cry when I was by myself, my head in my pillow, shielded from the world. How and with whom and where do we show our true selves? This one is about the safety measures and defense mechanisms we use to guard ourselves against being with ourselves and our truths.”
Let’s Whisper are:
Colin Clary - guitar, vocals
Dana Kaplan - guitar, vocals
Brad Searles - drums
Emma Kupa - bass, vocals
Jeff Baron - guitar, keys
LET’S WHISPER started as a home-recording project between the Burlington, Vermont-based duo of Colin Clary and Dana Kaplan (The Smittens) in the mid-2000s. Their home-recording process, which they refer to as “Whispering,” conjures up intimate, heartfelt songs that build off the framework of tweepop and incorporate bits of psychedelia and Americana while staying openhearted and questioning. On their first release in eight years, The In-Between Times, Let’s Whisper—now a five-piece rounded out by drummer Brad Searles, bassist-vocalist Emma Kupa, and guitarist-keyboardist Jeff Baron—expand their sound while detailing the realities of their world in pointillistic lyrics.
Let’s Whisper live:
15 Sep: O Brien’s, Boston MA - with Quivers and Yours Are The Only Ears
“On their latest single, the band churn out something that equally as grand, though its blossoming in a completely different fashion, more organic in a sense. The percussion works as the song’s backbone, with guitar lines bending about, stretching themselves out on the lawn and soaking up the little arrangement details that offer a sunny disposition to the listener” Austin Town Hall
