ENJOY THE COMPANY (180G)

Enjoy The Company is the much anticipated new album from Athens, GA rockers The Whigs and their fourth full-length overall. Written in Nashville, TN and Athens, GA and recorded in Woodstock, NY with producer John Agnello (Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr.), the band was able to capture the best parts of their earlier albums and create an exciting collection full of driving rock songs that are punk, pop, and melodic, all of the reasons why we fell in love with The Whigs in the first place. ??There are 10 tracks on the record, which is bookended by the album's two longest cuts, Staying Alive and Ours. The longest by far is Staying Alive, an eight-minute epic that opens the album. It would seem more like a natural closer, especially with the epic jam that wraps the song. Frontman Parker Gispert says that was the original plan, until the end of recording. The whole time we were writing it we thought 'Staying Alive' was gonna be at the end and 'Ours' was written to be the opener, he says. By the end of the record it just became obvious that we were gonna flip them.??The extended jam was actually born during live shows. We had played the song a few times live and it just got gnarly whenever we played it at a show, he says. Rather than truncate it for the record we just figured, let it hang loose. One tribute to the band's forefathers comes on Rock and Roll Forever, a song that carries on the great tradition of tunes with the words rock & roll in the title. When I think about a song with rock & roll in the title, like Chuck Berry or the Stones, or Led Zeppelin, it's like all my favorite rock bands sing about rock, Gispert says, name-checking songs by the Velvet Underground, the Ramones and AC/DC as well.??The Whigs Enjoy The Company Track Listing:??1. Staying Alive?2. Gospel?3. Tiny Treasures?4. Summer Heat?5. After Dark?6. Waiting?7. Couple of Kids?8. Thank You?9. Rock and Roll Forever?10. Ours