folk indie acoustic duo vancouver
| | 1 | Gold Fever | | 2:40 |
| | 2 | Communication's Dead | | 4:48 |
| | 3 | Jim & Ruth | | 3:08 |
| | 4 | Devil's Cauldron | | 5:00 |
| | 5 | Man by Name of Denver | | 3:32 |
| | 6 | Coming Back | | 3:36 |
| | 7 | Somedays | | 2:08 |
| | 8 | Where does the Garbage go? | | 3:15 |
| | 9 | Good Friends won't Rip you Off | | 3:58 |
| | 10 | River | | 4:06 |
| | 11 | Ballad of a Jailbreak Wedding | | 2:26 |
| | 12 | When I was Old | | 4:58 |
On more than one occasion, Tom Prilesky, one half of the Vancouver-based duo that makes up the Wind Whistles, croons and weaves words eerily like Decemberists frontman Colin Meloy. This isn't too strange, seeing as their debut album, Window Sills, is a positively folksy affair. Prilesky drops lyrics like "sail my ship to Africa", "I'll meet you out on the train", and similarly vagabond-like vocals that echo themes in many a Decemberist song. Where these folktale similarities end, Prilesky and fellow-Wind Whistle Liza Moser branch out on a risky limb, take some friends along for the ride, and hold on tight.
Window Sills is a veritable jam session as the Wind Whistles invite various talents to sing along, compose and strum, resulting in a compilation of simple songs that sound like friends making music in somebody's basement. Scratch that: Friends making music in a rustic cabin, on an island, surrounded by wild deer and a wooded glen. When night falls, they all keep jamming, a melancholy ballad emerges here and there (the captivating "River"), and in the morning friendships are stronger and good prospers over evil ("Good friends won't rip you off" is so feel-good it hurts).
The reality is that the disc was mixed and recorded in a local studio, but you can hear the rich fantasies behind the tunes. These are songs that tell stories-solid harmonies with a diversity that could only be achieved by having eighteen performers rally together on twelve tight tracks.
Katie Nanton – Discorder Magazine Feb. 2008 issue

| Genre | indie-folk | ||||||||||||||
| Release | March 07, 2008 | ||||||||||||||
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