16 Jan 2011 — Henning Lahmann
Whirl is a six band outfit from the Californian Bay Area that, not unlike fellow SF dream pop outfit
Tamaryn, remains true to the legacy of late 80s shoegaze, making gorgeous music to close your eyes to and get drowned in, sweetest, melancholic melodies played by heavily washed-out guitars, beautiful slow-burners to melt your consciousness, simply made for these dark and grey January Sunday afternoons.
Their song
Ghost is especially breathtaking, a perfectly desperate dream wave ballad - when the female lead singer inwardly begs "hold me close/stay with me" through thick layers of echo and reverb, you instantly feel both comfort and pain, and what else could we ever demand from music?
Whirl's debut cassette
Distressor is now out on
Bridgetown Records in an edition of 100, or just grab it for only ten cents via
bandcamp.
Whirl - Ghost
Whirl - Sandy
