Pre-Order 31/07/26 - Whitney: Light Upon The Lake - 10th Anniversary Edition (Coloured Vinyl LP)

This item is available for pre-order only and will be dispatched on or around its release date (31/07/26)

To mark its 10-year anniversary, Secretly Canadian are making a new variant of Whitney’s debut album available for the first time.

Whitney make casually melancholic music that combines the wounded drawl of Townes Van Zandt, the rambunctious energy of Jim Ford, the stoned affability of Bobby Charles, the American otherworldliness of The Band, and the slack groove of early Pavement. Their debut, Light Upon The Lake, marks the culmination of a short, but incredibly intense, creative period for the band.

To say that Whitney is more than the sum of its parts would be a criminal understatement. Formed from the core of guitarist Max Kakacek and singing drummer Julien Ehrlich, the band itself is something bigger, something visionary, something neither of them could have accomplished alone. Ehrlich had been a member of Unknown Mortal Orchestra, but left to play drums for the Smith Westerns, where he met guitarist Kakacek.

That group burned brightly but briefly, disbanding in 2014 and leaving its members adrift. Brief solo careers and side-projects abounded, but nothing clicked. Making everything seem all the more fraught: both of them were going through especially painful breakups almost simultaneously, the kind that inspire a million songs, and they emerged emotionally bruised and lonelier than ever.

Cotton candy vinyl version.

1. No Woman
2. The Falls
3. Golden Days
4. Dave's Song
5. Light Upon The Lake
6. No Matter Where We Go
7. On My Own
8. Red Moon
9. Polly
10. Follow