Whitney K. - Goodnight (2021)

Time is not a friend when trouble comes rolling in. Except this
time you’re driving around Vancouver, Canada with Whitney K and
everything is becoming intoxicating by the second, he wants to
waste your minutes, get comfortable and help you find a new
illusion sometimes called romance.

Whitney K is Konnor Whitney a young man from Vancouver, who has
spent time in Whitehorse, Yukon, Montreal, Burnaby and Los
Angeles. Goodnight is his first album for Maple Death Records
and fittingly is his most coherent effort, an intimate journey
into everyday life, borderline depression and the simple things
that keep turning those 24 hours around: read, drink, get
around and work just enough to stay afloat.

Recorded completely at home on a 4 track machine empathetically
named “moth insurance” Goodnight has all the qualities of a
timeless recording, a warm ball of charm hurling down a freeway
filled with late night Harry Nilsson stories (Goodnight), the
raw fierce spirit of Karen Dalton, the chu-chu train thunder of
John Cale’s Velvet Underground (Swans, Sympathy) and the ragged
primitive noise punk blues of Royal Trux and early Beck a là
One Foot In The Grave era (Running Up That Hill). Once they
would have simply called it outsider folk, tying Whitney K, to a
generation of ramblin’ troubadours living life on the freakier
side of American folk and walking in Michael Hurley’s shoes.
What sets Whitney apart is his straightforward, introspective
lyrical style that combines folklore and realism to instantly
transform the mundane into extraordinary, creating seven stories
that draw you in from the get-go.

Goodnight was mixed by former Jackie O’ Motherfucker member
Joshua Stevenson (Nü Sensae, Destroyer, Steve Hauschildt, White
Lung) and places Whitney K in the fervent Vancouver music
community amongst friends and peers Cindy Lee & Gretchen Snakes.
Mastered by Josh Boguski at Studio Parc Mastering. It’s now or
never before the sun comes up, before this goodnight turns into
smut.