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Over the past couple of years, critics have mostly stopped bringing up the creation story that followed Whitney around in their early days.

The idea was that the band’s two principal members — Julien Ehrlich on drums and lead vocals, Max Kakacek on guitar — wrote their songs by channeling a reclusive, heavy-drinking, fictional songwriter named Whitney, whose music would only see the light of day long after his death.

And the story was true, mostly. But the notion that Whitney were ever really detached from their music didn’t quite add up. Even on their debut Light Upon The Lake, a soft rock mini-masterpiece rapt by nostalgia and delivered entirely in falsetto, Ehrlich was clearly processing his grief and regret at points.

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