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Freelance Whales

Freelance Whales sound like a happy bunch.
Freelance Whales sound like a happy bunch.

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Fitzgerald's

2706 White Oak
Houston, TX 77007

Category: Bars and Clubs

Region: Heights

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With Foals and The Naked and Famous, 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 19, at Fitzgerald's, 2706 White Oak, 713-862-3838 or www.fitzlivemusic.com

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Living in the margin between the Postal Service and Sufjan Stevens is an awfully adorable business, but Freelance Whales manages to do it without being too vomit-inducing. Scant praise, and that's about right for the Queens quintet. There's some wonderful songcraft here, which keeps the Whales out of Owl City territory — but when your materials include glockenspiel and harmonium, you're going to sound like cartoons no matter how capable your melodies are. In some ways, the band is only guilty of being at the wrong place at the wrong time; subtract four or five years, and you've got a critical darling. Alas, the twee zeitgeist has ended. At this point, the band's biggest claim to fame is providing the soundtrack for a Twitter relaunch, but if you like wonderment and twinkling from your pop music, you could do much, much worse.

 
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