Sunshine Convention

Sunshine Convention is the primary musical project of Brooklyn's Jake Whitener. 3 years ago, Whitener quietly began writing dozens and dozens of songs in the privacy of his room amassing nearly 300 song ideas during the process. Now, he has whittled that collection of shapeless ideas through 4-tracks, garageband, and voice memos down to a collection of 12 loud, lo-fi pop tracks which he released in July. The project has since grown into collective, consisting of singer-songwriters Kira Skye, Ben Richmond (Jobelin), Mario Schoening (Lokomoko), and Sam Haw. The lead single for the album, and for the band in general, “Dawned On Me” is a chugging, buzzing, eminently hooky power-pop tune that sounds like being submerged in harmonious distortion... a great debut." Stereogum "As Sunshine Convention, Brooklyn’s Jake Whitener has a familiar and pleasing sound–fuzzy, lo-fi, loud, but above all massively pop-friendly. Nevertheless, The Sunshine Convention doesn’t feel played out at all due to Whitener’s sharp songwriting skills, the album’s excitable energy, and the fact that there’s still plenty of room to explore in the space of these genre labels. Whitener is fluent in everything from lo-fi Guided by Voices to early Elephant 6 to Sparklehorse to Yo La Tengo, and he can turn any of these starting points into loud, hooky indie rock anthems with ease over the course of a debut record that hits the ground running." Rosy Underground (#27 Album of the Year)