It’s always beautiful when a band finds you when you least expect it and especially when it’s most needed and that band is Killer Whale.
Despite the badass name, Killer Whale seems to be the band that melts your worries away with the mellowest songs. Now that we’re surprisingly already into October, Killer Whale seems to be fit for every season.
Killer Whale spent a decade in San Francisco before relocating back to frontman Thomas Johnson’s native Lousiana, settling in New Orleans in December 2019. Their experiences have provided a combination of surf and alt-R&B/soul influences you can hear in each of the songs on their new LP, Tastes Like Yesterday, co-produced by Johnson, Grayson Converse of Spooky Mansion, and Scott Sibley. It’s a kaleidoscopic and refreshing addition to the musical landscape, groovy to the last drop.
Thomas Johnson’s music as Killer Whale has always been at home on the water, although its not always clear which coastline that’s near. “Tastes Like Yesterday,” Killer Whale’s new full-length album out Sept. 18, has the bounce and rhythm of Southern R&B and the sunny haze of West Coast surf folk.
New Orleans-based Killer Whale is the project of Louisiana native Thomas Johnson, who according to the band’s website also spends time in Austin and San Francisco. Johnson cooks up mid-tempo jams that reflect his travels—songs that sound like they belong as equally in an urban California bedroom as they might at an outdoor music festival. His guitar defines these compositions: bent blue notes, major key melodies, shades of funk, soul, and R&B—a jam band with pop sensibilities.
The ongoing pandemic has affected everyone and everything, and the music industry is no exception. Production delays and tour cancellations are but two among a number of ways that artists are being forced to adapt. But adapt they do—some of them anyway—with a bevy of livestreams, DIY music videos, and upcoming album releases to show for it.
Killer Whale’s new single, “Drop Out” was released on the Devil in the Woods label.
Killer Whale presents “Drop Out”, her most recent single this 2020. Let’s remember that this year she released a couple of songs like “Comfortable” or “Plenty of Time” through the Devil in the Woods label.
New Orleans-based band Killer Whale releases “Drop Out,” the groovy third single and its gloriously lo-fi video from their forthcoming album Tastes Like Yesterday, co-produced by Grayson Converse of Spooky Mansion, out September 18th via Devil In The Woods. “Drop Out.”
Songs that we think you should hear without all the pomp and circumstance.
Taken from their forthcoming album ‘Tastes Like Yesterday’, out via Devil in the Woods Records on September 18th, we’re delighted to premiere the new single and video from Louisiana’s Killer Whale right here on Backseat Mafia.
