Recorded in May of 2020 at Timewell Studios
Engineered and Mixed by Zac Montez
Mastered by Carl Saff
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Steve Burton - Drums
Ryan Davis - Guitar//Vocals
Dave Jedlecki - Bass//Artwork drawing
Mike Kennedy - Guitar//Artwork design

Flipside

40 days-slowdive (slightly slowed)

GRAVE118 - Whirr 'Sway' out 9/23/14 on CD/LP/Tape/Digital (pre-order here: http://www.graveface.com/graveface-catalog.html)

When Sway begins, you might at first press pause, reaching for your headphone wire or peeking behind your speaker cables to make sure nothing has come undone. The blister of distorted guitar that opens the album comes only from the right channel, howling and hanging there in irascible isolation until it seems that something must be wrong.
But be patient: After a dozen seconds, the rest of Whirr—a five-piece of blanketing rock focus and comforting pop finesse—pours in from the left channel. They meet the guitar in the middle, together racing headlong into a short section that’s heavy as metal but pliable enough to be the springboard for the galloping shoegaze beauty that soon arrives.
For the next 36 minutes, you need not worry again about lost connections, split channels or anything else, really. More than any Whirr release to date, Sway creates a definitive sense of immersion, sculpting an environment that breathes you in instantly and breathes you out only when the record snaps into silence.
That bifurcated start is an appropriate image for Whirr in 2014. Last year, the band headlined a tour with the Philadelphia group and fellow admirers of heaviness and harmony, Nothing. Not only did the crews become fast friends, but their respective founders—Whirr’s Nick Bassett and Nothing’s Dominic Palermo—decided to start a group of their own, Death of Lovers. When the shared tour was finished, Bassett headed to Philadelphia for a month of writing and recording. He’s never really left. He calls Philadelphia home now, so Whirr has become a bicoastal band.
In Philadelphia, Bassett worked on Death of Lovers’ debut for Deathwish Inc., toured as the bassist for Nothing and steadily composed new material for the next Whirr album, their first full-length for Graveface. Back in Oakland, the rest of Whirr had committed to the project full-time, too, so the West Coast contingent wrote and rehearsed new material without Bassett. Joey Bautista took the lead on two songs, Loren Rivera on three.
Indeed, against most odds, Bassett’s move made for a more democratic Whirr. In their salad days, Bassett had written most of the material and built the bulk of the arrangements, too, using the support only to enrich and enliven them. After a slew of splits and singles and EPs, Sway is the second Whirr LP, but it is only the first to be rendered by a fully functional rock band, having shaped the songs slowly and over some distance.
Before the quintet entered Oakland’s Atomic Garden to work with longtime producer and collaborator Jack Shirley, they reworked the contributions of all three writers, massaging the material into a cohesive dynamo. Rivera, for instance, rewrote the words for Bassett’s material, folding his songs into the album’s presiding sense of dusky melancholy.
“It’s not conceptual, entirely, but it’s intended to ebb and flow in a certain way—one song being aggressive, then dropping out and being pretty but devastating,” Bassett says. “We tried to create an atmosphere, where you listen and get vibed into one tone. ”
That rhythm presides over Sway, tying its distinct parts into a seamless unit. The restless “Heavy” churns somewhere between Godflesh and Gish, its lumbering beat and foreboding guitar buoyed by a melody that feels like a secret hymn for which you’ve long searched. Gorgeous and sprawling, “Sway” floats through luxuriating guitars and pillowed vocals, offering an impressionistic but intoxicating inversion of Whirr’s typical propulsion. Even here, during the record’s prettiest moment, Whirr maintains a righteous minimalism, emblematic of members who met one another as skateboarding high-school kids.
“The aesthetic of the band is more aimed at mature punk rather than alternative rock,” Bassett confirms. “There are these more aggressive punk elements—noisy feedback, a snare roll that just goes into super-punchy, driving songs.”
“Clear” brilliantly paints its lyrical quest for lucid communication—“I want words/to understand you,” runs one plaintive, surging bit—in music that takes up the same challenge. Whirr pushes past a pastel instrumental haze into a hangdog march, with near-whispered vocals bruised by Devin Nunes’ drums and Eddie Saldago’s orotund bass line. But as the end approaches, the band builds together, the riffs and the rhythm colliding into one triumphant, redemptive crest.
And that’s the victory of Sway, too, an album written by five people on two coasts but executed with the force and splendor of, at last, a fully unified Whirr.
Graveface will release Sway on CD, LP and digitally September 23.

Whirr - Mumble

Bury Me In The Ground Where The Tomb Should Lay

Don’t Feel Me

FOR A NEW SINGLE!!!

"If I Could Ever Be"

Lyrics:
Night of the dead
Feeling so alone
Inside my heart
Nothing there is

One day you'll see
That I will be gone
If you ever see
Then please don't leave

Clean, unclean, only animals are free
Seen, unseen, if I could ever be

Fly fly away
I'll be ok
Tell 'em I'm alright
All the paths are bright

One day you'll see
That I will be gone
If you ever see
Then please don't leave

Clean, unclean, only animals are free
Seen, unseen, if I could ever be


Happy happy happy times
will never come back, is it ok?
Better better better times
will I ever ever see, do you agree?
Deeper deeper deeper mind
is it allways good, can't you see?
Empty empty empty soul
do we even care, are we for real?

Oh, hello. Here I am
Hey, what's up, how you doing?
It's been along while
Since we last felt eachother
I didn't know you're like
Myself, do we like?


Oh why, did you just...
I'm so sorry, I am so confused
I think I felt something happening
Oh I think I've just lost my mind

Oh why, did you just...
I'm so sorry, I am so confused
I think I felt something happening
Oh I think I've just lost my mind

INSTRUMENTAL 06 - 80 BPM (If I Could Ever Be)

Courtyards

peggy

hurt

:/

lyrics
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i cant make it go away
but i'm becoming my own best friend
do u know, do u know
do u know
what keeps u up at night
do u know do u know
what tears u up inside

i'll text everyone i know
just to erase what i had said
again
do you know, do u know, do u know
what keeps me up at night
do u know do u know
what eats me up inside

what tears u up inside?

DELETEME

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2tarP0SuQ4 - Credits

Have a Nice Life - Earthmover

All Is Well is now live on Spotify, YouTube Music and Apple Music!!! 

Also working on uploading previous releases on Spotify and Apple Music! Links to both profiles for each streaming service below if you prefer those platforms!

New tracks are always uploaded to SoundCloud first. 

Instrumental Shoegaze, Post Rock, Wall of Sound 

Thanks for listening 🙂


Spotify 
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4h6svew0lkLjMAWn4gWe80?si=RgUuo45FQ1yLGVihKbYqjA

Apple Music
https://music.apple.com/us/artist/mf-t/1761133015

Don’t Feel Me

MF T