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# Whelming - Plant Your Lightning
- URL: https://www.rhythmchanges.ca/whelming-plant-your-lightning/
- Published: 2022-02-14T14:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-12-10T21:51:09.000Z
- Description: It’s rare for indie rock songs to appease both advanced musicians and mainstream music audiences.
- Author: Francis Baptiste
- Tags: Free Weekly

Have you ever reached the end of a movie and found yourself compelled to re-watch from the beginning, because it was both fantastic and stuffed with subtle details that begged for a second viewing? 

That’s the feeling I had at the end of this album.

## This songwriter has a lot of nuance. 

The songs have interesting time signatures while still maintaining a head-bobbing, toe-tapping consistency.

The occasional shift in key keeps things interesting for the more advanced listeners, while pleasant melodies and hooks keep it accessible.

### It’s rare for songs to appease both advanced musicians and mainstream music audiences. 

Finding that balance is the greatest strength of *Plant Your Lightning*.

This album is Whelming’s first release since their EP from 2019, *Settle*; it shows the band growing and maturing as writers.

### It’s one of the best-sounding DIY albums to come out of Vancouver in some time.

It sounds like it was made in a big, expensive studio, so the fact that it was recorded in a jam space and an apartment is a bit mind-blowing.

*Plant Your Lightning* starts strong with an impressive opener, “**Time Is Now**”, which is a perfect introduction to the Whelming style of rock. It’s catchy and original while breaking from your typical rock song’s time signature.

The second track “**Ready**” is a catchy sing-along tune where the emphasis never lands where you’d expect. It’s a welcome and sophisticated change from the norm.

“**Fill the Sky**” is the most upbeat song on the album, as close as Whelming ever get to the Foo Fighters. 

### The theme of rampant housing developments is certainly one any Vancouverite can relate to.

Other strong points on the album include the tracks “**Make Up Your Mind**” and “**Rules**”, as well as the epic finale, “**Sketches / Last Pages**”, which might be one of the most satisfying endings to a rock album in years.

This album begs to be listened to front to back; it needs to be properly experienced. 

The crescendo on the final track isn’t as impactful without the context of hearing all the preceding tracks.

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*Plant Your Lightning by Whelming released on January 19, 2022\.* [*Find it here*](https://whelming.bandcamp.com/album/plant-your-lightning?ref=rhythmchanges.ca)*.*

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