No one should be surprised that Whitney’s Playland is from the Sunset. Even without the heavy hints in their name and album title (Playland at the Beach famously stretched along the Richmond side of Ocean Beach from the 1920s to 1972) something about the simplicity of the few tracks we have from Sunset Sea Breeze—even the crunchy, fuzzy “Mercy”—reflects the slower pace of life out that way. (It isn’t particularly Sunset-y, but “Rain Song” is deliciously ‘90s, and it’s my favorite of the bunch.) Sunset Sea Breeze is out on Paisley Shirt Records tomorrow, so check it out if you like electric guitars, drums, sweet airy vocals, and little else.
See Whitney’s Playland play live at a couple upcoming dates:
