The new single from The Whitlams forthcoming album is a delicious three minutes of pastoral pop “Man About a Dog”.
The Whitlams’ catalogue is full of iconic urban tales, but their new song takes the boy out of the city and places him firmly in the country – driving through the hills to see a “Man About a Dog”, just as the drought breaks.
“On the roof the heavy drops / …break the Silence of the Frogs”. Who else would name drop Neil Young and Arvo Pärt in a song about farmers limping after their escaped cattle?
Skipping dreamily over a propulsive drum track by Terepai Richmond, and with a fluid melody as viral as the best of their long career, this return to the band’s folk / pop origins and is produced by Daniel Denholm who was responsible for the band’s commercial breakthrough “Blow Up the Pokies”.
Tim Freedman will undertake his first regional solo tour during April, May and June to launch The Whitlams’ new single. Of the upcoming tour Freedman says, “The Whitlams have stuck to the cities lately, but with this song being a little bit country it seemed like the perfect time for me to return to the towns we loved playing when we were young and full of the devil.”
Tim will settle in with his piano to tell some stories, reinvent favourites like “Blow Up the Pokies” and “No Aphrodisiac” and play some tracks from The Whitlams’ forthcoming album “Gaffage and Clink” due for release later this year.