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GRAVE092 ::: Whirr 'Around'

Click here to order directly: 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.

Whirr - Drain

17 Memory Pools

Beach Fossils - What a Pleasure

From The Zolas third studio album, Swooner. Available March 4, 2016 via Light Organ Records. @light-organ 

Invisible

Relic Pop - Henry & Lucien

Working For A Nuclear Free City – Businessmen & Ghosts 
Genre: Electronic, Rock 
Style: Downtempo, Indie Rock 
Year: 2007

WORKING FOR A NUCLEAR FREE CITY - Rocket

Produced by PARTYNEXTDOOR
Co-Produced by 40

Drake ~ Days In The East

We Have A Map Of The Piano - Múm

Whirr - Revealed underworld

Whirr - Drove by them

Whirr-Junebouvier

The first track to be released from Team Ghost's debut EP 'You Never Did Anything Wrong To Me'.

Team Ghost 'Colors In Time'

You are the player... We are Colecovision...

Protector 101 - Vision

Beach Fossils - Wide Awake

Beach Fossils-Golden Age

Sóley - Pretty Face

Pairs

Beach Fossils - Window View

Whirr - Tattooed landscape

Total Dust is the debut album from Dusted (Brian Borcherdt of Holy Fuck) and Leon Taheny (Final Fantasy, Rituals). 

Purchase CD / LP from Polyvinyl Records - http://www.polyvinylrecords.com/totaldust
Purchase CD / LP from Hand Drawn Dracula (Canada) - http://handdrawndracula.com/artists/dusted/

Buy on iTunes

Dusted - Property Lines

The Orwells - In My Bed

Jack Penate - Torn On The Platform

Bay Area post-shoegaze sextet, Whirr, generates expressive songs of cutting guitar textures backed by misty vocals. Their full length debut ‘Pipe Dreams’ dropped via TeePee Records on March 13th. ‘Distressor’ is a reissue of their debut EP, originally released in mid-2011 as a 500 copy vinyl only run in the UK.
Whirr's spirit rejuvenates the '90s shoegaze sound, providing a widescreen update for the post-millennial era. A wall of lush guitars, breathy vocals, dreamy synth and thunderous drumming send the listener to a picturesque realm. Instantly catchy melodies and emotional, enveloping atmospheres hang fully in balance. The sound of Whirr is a total crush when texture, volume, bright pop melodies and dense guitar noise fuse perfectly.
Twenty years after My Bloody Valentine awed music fans with the now-classic 'Loveless' LP, Whirr emerges with their own fluid surge of drones and reverberations. However, classifying them only as shoegaze diminishes their complexity. Guitarist, Nick Bassett, also plays in the celebrated post-black metal band, Deafheaven, whose latest release was named one of NPR’s Best Metal Albums of 2011. That influence infiltrates Whirr’s sound, producing an interwoven sound. The cd is packaged in a recycled gatefold sleeve and the retail vinyl color is black/white/grey splatter on clear.

Whirr - Ghost

Support the Artist:
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Cold Showers - BC

M83's new album Junk is out now: http://m83.it/buyjunkSo 

M83 on tour now. Dates & tickets: http://m83.it/tourSo

Teen Angst

Beach Fossils' new album 'Clash the Truth' out February 19, 2013 on Captured Tracks.

LTD LP: http://goo.gl/rLdXd
Regular edition LP/CD: http://goo.gl/5nR5M
iTunes: (LINK WILL BE PLACED HERE TOMORROW 2/9) 

Beach Fossils // Birthday

Song written, recorded and performed by Tarek Musa
Guest vocals and cello from Evelyn Burke

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It's Alright, Follow

"Sophia So Far," released by +1 Records, is a song created by Shawn Christensen for a pivotal scene in the 2013 Oscar Award winning short film "Curfew."  Available on iTunes--> <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/sophia-so-far-single/id624844428" target="new">Click here</a>

Sophia So Far

AMB1306 - Nadine Shah - Dreary Town

OUT NOW
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7" Vinyl (Dreary Town / Bobby Heron) - coming soon
Pre-order here: http://randsrecords.greedbag.com/buy/dreary-town-0/

Nadine Shah - Dreary Town

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. 

Whirr - Swoon

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Waste of Time

Beck - Defriended

New single 'Gold' 

Released Digitally via Rattlepop on 29/07/13 

http://www.jawsjawsjaws.co.uk

Gold

Working for a Nuclear Free City - The Tape

“Nantucket! Take out your map and look at it. See what a real corner of the world it occupies; how it stands there, away off shore, more lonely than the Eddystone lighthouse… all beach, without a background… Nantucket is no Illinois.”
When Herman Neville penned these words in 1851, he envisioned Nantucket through the eyes of a weary whaler at sea. Yet 157 years later, his words resonated with two young men landlocked in the Midwest. Michael LoPresti and Aaron Smith could empathize with the whalers of Neville’s Moby Dick. Their music was their Nantucket, beckoning them to break away from their day jobs and go back to what they loved.  It was this longing that gave way to The Lighthouse and the Whaler.

In June 2008, Michael (lead vocals, guitar, mandolin, keyboard) and Aaron (violin, guitar, keyboard) met in a field Ohio to take photos with a friend. Taking up their instruments – a violin and a guitar – the musicians had an impromptu collaboration session as the photographer snapped his shots. By the end of the day Michael and Aaron had written their first song, aptly titled “The Field Song,” which was released in December 2008 on a four-song EP entitled A Whisper, A Clamour. The band’s blend of ethereal folk and sweeping harmonies quickly caught the attention of Paste, which featured “The Field Song” on its acclaimed CD sampler. The band also earned early praise and recognition from Under the Radar and FILTER, which in July 2009 declared The Lighthouse and the Whaler its “Unsigned Band of the Month.”

While holding odd jobs as graphic designers, grocery clerks and freelance musicians, the band worked for its rightful place in the Midwest music scene, adding Michael’s younger brother, Matthew (percussion), to the full-time line-up. Their college friend Mark Poro (vocals, guitar, mandolin) soon followed, along with his musical collaborator Steven Diaz (vocals, guitar, keyboard, percussion).

Pursuing a do-it-yourself approach, the band booked itself regional tours through the East and West Coasts, sharing stages with notable acts including Sufjan Stevens, The Temper Trap, Carolina Chocolate Drops, A.A. Bondy, Via Audio and Hallelujah the Hills. During these shows the band showed off its multi-instrumentalist approach, impressing crowds at House of Blues, SXSW, Rock N Roll Hall of Fame, The Living Room, Schuba’s and other venues with what MTV describes as “really cool, melodic folk rock… and a live show you’ve got to check out for yourself.”

The Lighthouse and the Whaler was also busy preparing its debut, self-titled LP, just as it was named “Best Indie Artist” at the 2010 Cleveland Music Awards. Described as “colorful, eccentric and fantastically triumphant,” the album showcases the band’s ability to take seemingly simple instrumentations and layer them into something powerful and strong. “Windows” and “Of the Heavens and the Earth” offer punctuated melodies and sustained harmonies, while “Under Mountain, Under Ground” is marked by “sweet harmonies, a resonant barroom piano, and propulsive percussion to an exuberant climax” (KEXP). The lyrics, which hint at the band’s studies in philosophy and theology, provide room for fans to interpret and correlate the music with experiences in their own lives: struggles, triumphs, good ties and bad.

And while Neville’s protagonist looked out longingly for a home that was out of reach, The Lighthouse and the Whaler is wasting no time chasing down what really matters. “We’ve equated music to be something by which people can really be changed and moved,” explains Michael. “There’s something beautiful in music and powerful in music and when faced with a choice of this or other things – other ways to make money or other ways to fill our heads – we would choose this every time.”

Whirr-Junebouvier

Not Enough Recognition