HOME IS WHERE – The Whaler (Repress) – LP – Milky Clear Coloured Vinyl [DATE TBC]

LP – Limited Edition Milky Clear Coloured Vinyl (2025 Repress).

Home Is Where make anxiety-riddled but cathartic rock songs about the apocalypse. the whalerthe Palm Coast, Florida quartets ambitious and exhilarating sophomore full-lengthis a concept record about getting used to things getting worse. Across 10 interconnected but self-contained songs, the album captures the desensitization and disorientation of tragedy becoming mundane. the whaler, produced by Jack Shirley (Joyce Manor, Deafheaven) at Atomic Garden in Oakland, CA, marks an unmistakable new chapter for frontwoman Brandon MacDonalds songwriting, subverting the expectations left by her bands 2021 debut LP I Became Birds for something equally resonant, but darker and more expansive. While the whaler paints a bleak picture of a world in an endless state of collapseof ruined utopias and desperate people faking normalcytheres a humanity-affirming undercurrent throughout that screams to break free.

Tracklist:

1. skin meadow
2. lily pad pupils
3. yes! yes! a thousand times yes!
4. whaling for sport
5. everyday feels like 9/11
6. 9/12
7. daytona 500
8. chris farley
9. nursing home riot
10. floral organs

evan bailey – piano
brian lockrem – trumpet
foster miller – album art
zak nirenberg – trombone, backing vox
dan pot – pedal steel
jack shirley – production, tape loops
shannon taylor – backing vox
joey tobin – documentation, field recordings, breaking stuff