GRAVE092 ::: Whirr 'Around'

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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.

Whirr - Drain

http://fleetingjoys1.bandcamp.com/track/kiss-a-girl-in-black-single

Fleeting Joys - Kiss A Girl In Black

Everything

No Sense

So High

The Fauns - Fragile

A Shoegaze renaissance classic, first time on vinyl.

The shoegaze renaissance classic The Millia Pink And Green EP by Sway has influenced many a modern musician, shoegazer and non-shoegazer alike. Now, Saint Marie Records gives it the long awaited vinyl treatment. The record now weighs a bit more, thanks to the bonus track ‘Channel’ and its 180gm Coke bottle green transparent vinyl.

Sway began making noise in 1999, in Ventura, California. At the time, they were a four-piece garage rock outfit consisting of Andrew Saks, Amber Carlson, Seth Eubanks, and Vince Alatorre, playing shows and confusing audiences up and down the West Coast with its blurry wall of sound. They’re most known for the shoegaze renaissance classic The Millia Pink And Green EP released in 2003.

Andrew’s songwriting and sonic ideals are deeply rooted in the music he was surrounded by while coming of age: late ‘70s and ‘80s pop music.  Falling asleep nightly while listening to 1980s pop and R&B, and then waking up late at night in a dark dreamlike haze with New Order, Swing Out Sister, Talking Heads, Pet Shop Boys, Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam whispering through his Walkman’s headphones, the sonic memory of such experiences keep Sway from ever giving itself over fully to the traditional shoegaze elements. The quest to recreate these musical properties is what later led Sway to embrace and be further influenced by the blissful textures of dreampop visionaries such as The Cocteau Twins, Medicine, and My Bloody Valentine.

In 2011, This Was Tomorrow was released by Saint Marie Records.  It was Sway’s first full-length release and its last.

SIDE A
Fall
Sounds Like Everyone
Sullust

SIDE B
Ever and Ever
Opentillate
Channel (Bonus Track)

Sway - Sounds Like Everyone

Tears Run Rings - Mind the Wires - Always, Sometime, Seldom, Never

Mind the Wires

Only I Was

From *UPCOMING* BLVD album, Astrobrite "All The Stars Will Fall" LP.

BRAND NEW Astrobrite material! We are hoping to have this out near and/or around our vinyl reissue of "pinkshinyultrablast." 

"Shoegaze pioneer and lo-fi master Astrobrite, aka Scott Cortez, is back with a new album, All The Stars Will Fall. Lush and melodic, the ten tracks transcend common noise pop to create a new sonic space where ambient beauty floats freely within dissonant waves, amid a sea of clouded soundscapes. Darkish dreams abound with the overall vibe strangely peaceful and reassuring." 
-http://floorshimezipperboots.blogspot.com/2012/08/astrobrite-all-stars-will-fall.html

Check our website for preorder information (upcoming):
http://blvdrecords.com/?page_id=9

Our vinyl release will follow the CD release by our very good friends at Neon Sigh:
http://www.neonsigh.com/
http://www.neonsigh.com/artists/astrobrite/

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Astrobrite- Haunter

Track 1 from "Will"
https://animal-ghosts.bandcamp.com/album/will
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Twitter: @ANMLghosts

The Fauns - Fragile

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