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About Whistle Peak
Whistle Peak is pop music in disguise and experimentation at its core. It is music that takes you on a journey of the imagination, inhabiting fantastical lands while drawing from life experience. It is the particular phrased in the universal. It is children’s stories told by grown men. The music is upbeat and hypnotic, pulling you closer with each listen and surprising you with small amulets layered beneath continuous melody.

Whistle Peak’s style combines folk and electronic music, blending synthetic and acoustic instrumentation with songs of love and loss, joy and darkness. Not to say these boys are downers, rather their songs are quite optimistic and redemptive, bringing a small smile to man, woman and child alike. Chill out, strap on some ear muffs and enter a world where nature rules and men and women are entranced in dream-filled slumber. Half Asleep Upon Echo Falls is out now on Louisville-based record label Karate Body.

About Big Fresh:
This is the cosmic-scale pop of Moneychasers, the new album by Big Fresh, available October 25 on vinyl, CD and download on Garden Gate Records. Self-produced by the Kentucky avant-garde pop collective and engineered by electro-wizard Craig Morris in his hand-built Garden Gate Studio (The Apples in stereo, Thee American Revolution, Deathray Davies, Neutral Milk Hotel, Laminated Cat), the new album explodes with inventive catchiness and production details.

Big Fresh, a ten-member collective, has expanded like the universe since 2009’s ambitious home-recorded B.F.F. (Big Fresh Forever); they’ve been joined by a new singer (Kate Drof), a horn section, and two additional multi-instrumentalists.

With John Ferguson and Ben Phelan having joined world-touring indie band The Apples in stereo (and Ferguson contributing substantially on their most recent record), Big Fresh shows have been sighted, but are farther between—yet in the studio, madly writing and producing, the band has evolved like a star cluster.

The result is a stellar LP lying in a galactic sector between Tusk and R. Stevie Moore. Adding horns and the lush voice of Drof into their elaborate arrangements brings out the Fleetwood Mac influence on Big Fresh, and the R. Stevie Moore element is no accident: Vocalist/songwriter John Ferguson spent his childhood having the hyper-creative lo-fi pioneer as a sort of uncle, appearing on Moore’s recordings and immersed in his process. Moore contributed guitar parts to the album.

In addition to filling your mind with smooth, joyful music, Moneychasers aims to challenge your game-playing skills: The band created an absurd board game that makes up the album artwork. Now it is your move. Seal the hatch. Engage forward thrusters. Beam in some friends, press play and blast off.