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WHITE LUNG – ” Paradise ” Best Albums Of 2016

Posted: September 5, 2016 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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White Lung — Paradise

White Lung used to be a hardcore band. They made brash, unapologetic punk music that confronted its listeners by drowning them in assertive, nofucksgiven attitude. But on Paradise, White Lung prove themselves to be capable of so much more than that. This is an album that transcends anything the band released before; the hooks are heavier, the production is cleaner, and Mish Barber-Way’s vocal range is bigger. “Every new record should be the best work you’ve ever done,” she told us in our cover story. On Paradise, that offhanded comment doesn’t sound boastful or empty. It’s a statement of fact Mish Barber-Way … and her crew of Vancouver punk ruffians whip up a gloriously hostile racket, sharpening the raw attack of their 2014 breakthrough, Deep Fantasy. The songs gain a mammoth melodic crunch thanks to guitar whiz Kenny William, who sounds like Johnny Marr with his cardigan on fire.

Every now and then, there comes a band that reminds you why you fell in love with rock & roll in the first place. In 2016, White Lung was that band, and “Paradise” was the record. It’s a synthesis of everything that I love about the genre and its many subsets– soaring pop hooks, thrash-tastic riffs and drumming, gleaming post-punk atmosphere, and lyrical narratives. Like Japandroids and Titus Andronicus, White Lung have set the gold standard for rock music in the 21st century.

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WHITE LUNG – ” Below “

Posted: May 6, 2016 in MUSIC
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If this band doesn’t blow up after SXSW, then the system is broken. “Hungry” might’ve been the best song I heard all week and singer Mish Barber-Way was a beyond powerful force on an early afternoon set on SXSW’s dreariest day. At 2013’s festival, there was some buzz about White Lung. But with the Canadian quartet embracing a pop-forward approach, their music is finally getting the recognition it rightfully deserves. This was powerful rock and roll that radiated hard enough to make the days drizzle not matter at all and it has us incredibly excited for their upcoming album, Paradise, due out May 6th on Domino Recordings. If that’s not enough, their band bio comes in the form of a Q&A with St. Vincent’s Annie Clark on their website. Talk about a co-sign.

This Saturday night Vancouver punk-rockers White Lung will return to New York for a sold out performance at Baby’s All Right. It’s a release show of sorts for their new album Paradise, which comes out tomorrow via Domino Records.
The new record has a more polished and bigger sound in many ways, a little shinier around the edges but still hits every bit as hard as you’d expect from them. Their live show is always a wonderful ball of hectic energy, and I expect the show at Baby’s to be a glorious sweaty mess

WHITE LUNG – ” Below / Hungry / Kiss Me When I Bleed “

Posted: April 28, 2016 in MUSIC
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White Lung – Below (Official Video)

“Below” is a song unlike anything that White Lung has ever done before, and it’s exhilarating because of it. It’s the unabashed anthem on Paradise, for the band’s upcoming third album, and unlike their previous two records, there’s no hardcore influences . Maybe the switch-up comes as a little less of a surprise after the relative lightness of their first two singles — “Hungry” and “Kiss Me When I Bleed” — but “Below” approaches another level altogether: that of the straight-up pop banger. When Mish Barber-Way’s voice soars out, “You know this means nothing if you go die alone,” it’s both a rousing call to do exactly the opposite of that and a crushing reminder that maybe that’s all we’re fated for. “A broken crystal carcass reflects in all the light/ I see it fading now but it’s so bright,so bright,” she continues as she beckons us to go down below with her, “back where the sea meets the ground.” This song taps into some visceral and primal feeling that I can’t exactly put my finger on, but it makes me want to listen to nothing else for as long as I live.

“I needed to try to do a ballad about glamorous women,” Barber-Way said. It’s a song about the preservation of glamour and beauty.”
Taken from the new album “Paradise”, coming May 6th on Domino Recordings.The new track comes attached to a video directed by Richard Bates Jr. that features the band playing to an almost-empty theater save for a few Marilyn Monroe impersonators, one of whom is model Anna Lynne McCord. White Lung plays for an audience of impersonators who come to the realization that they’ve betrayed themselves in the pursuit of fame,” Bates Jr. explained in a press release. “‘Below’ is a love-letter to influential female artists from the past.

White Lung already released two songs off their new album Paradise, which comes out next week, and now they’ve released a third track. Following the poppy “Hungry” and the ripping “Kiss When I Bleed,” they’ve got “Below,” one of the band’s slowest songs to date. Singer Mish Barber-Way calls it her “Stevie-Nicks-meets-Celine Dion ballad,” and it’s definitely adding to the idea that Paradise will be White Lung’s most diverse album yet. The song has a video starring Anna Lynne McCord (Nip/Tuck) and directed by Richard Bates Jr (Excision).

White Lung will be on tour soon including a sold-out NYC release show at Baby’s All Right the day after the album comes out

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