Whirr - Swoon by Graveface Records published on 2013-05-08T14:02:38Z GRAVE092 ::: Whirr 'Around' Click here to order: http://www.graveface.com/graveface-catalog.html With their two albums to date, Bay Area six-piece Whirr have developed a reputation for dirgeful shoegaze, buttressed with textured layers or guitar and weighty, driving compositions. Spacious and moody, their 2012 LP Pipe Dream drew comparisons to heavyweights of the genre My Bloody Valentine, Ride and Slowdive. Now, Whirr returns with Around, a mini-LP that finds the group restrained, but no less dark. Here, they explore longer songs, with their shortest clocking in at just under six minutes. Catchy melodies, traditionally a part of the band’s wheelhouse, give way here to a droning ambience, shifting Whirr slightly from their shoegaze core toward a dour post-rock sound. Vocalists Kristina Esfandiari and Loren Rivera keep their contributions misty and abstract, serving here as additional instruments more than messengers. But the thunderous drums and lavish guitar work remain — albeit in a colder, glassier form — making Around both a departure and a logical step forward from Whirr’s previous work. LP: Record Club members receive black inside milky clear color in color vinyl. All RC copies hand-numbered. First retail pressing is heavy black splatter on milky clear vinyl (limited to 1350). Mail-order only variant is 180gram black vinyl (limited to 350 copies). LP jacket has swirl die cut. Full color thick inner sleeve. CD: The CD is packaged in an uncoated recycled sleeve. Cassette: The cassette comes with a full color j-card. 500 copies. Genre Dark Shoegaze Comment by PL1b0 double me 2023-08-13T07:27:08Z Comment by vkasgo <3 2023-03-22T23:32:04Z Comment by LUUTOKYO 900th like! 2023-03-01T14:11:35Z Comment by xtal hard 2022-12-27T20:34:09Z Comment by Hazelnut OHMYGOD I AM LEVITATING 2022-10-08T00:57:57Z Comment by Hazelnut YAS 2022-08-04T11:03:12Z Comment by ♱𝑱𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆†𐕣 @isaac-arms Its okay 2022-05-12T07:06:06Z Comment by elizsuttlinc oh yasssss 2019-06-22T07:44:33Z Comment by Kenneth S greatt. 2014-08-12T21:57:17Z Comment by Neil Young 9 Just great.....lovely production too. 2013-12-20T22:17:47Z Comment by goadiroth =O 2013-08-27T20:18:14Z Comment by radiohans Oh mother of god 2013-08-01T09:21:10Z Comment by nnnh8 beautiful 2013-07-15T03:33:52Z Comment by hypnoticrecordings yes! 2013-07-02T02:07:53Z Comment by This is That Song Love it! Blogged at This is That Song <a href="http://thisisthatsong.wordpress.com/2013/06/20/06-20-13-swoon-by-whirr/">here</a>. 2013-06-20T23:33:59Z Comment by methadronn whoooa 2013-06-20T17:11:51Z Comment by Zaina Naz I really didn't want it to end. 2013-06-02T05:32:06Z Comment by Zaina Naz Already pressed the like button. Damn. 2013-06-02T05:21:45Z Comment by Ayoub Mouftakhir 1 Just beautiful <3 2013-05-18T23:35:49Z Comment by CRIVER is Over. just beautiful again, all support by Criver : http://wearecriver.blogspot.fr/2013/05/whirr-swoon.html 2013-05-18T22:06:48Z Comment by Machine Lovers wonderful! 2013-05-18T21:44:52Z Comment by Eyes Of A Mute i fucking love kristina's vox!!!!! ahhhhhh <3<3<3 2013-05-17T07:01:07Z Comment by Rock.current 🌀 This is beautiful.. 2013-05-15T03:22:42Z Comment by Cuspy/Halo amazing 2013-05-15T02:36:13Z Comment by SleeppArticles That riff just took me to another planet. 2013-05-14T14:50:22Z Comment by James Brown 45 lovin this 2013-05-14T09:37:21Z Comment by tweakiepop :):) 2013-05-13T22:52:12Z