A dark droner of an EP. My Grandfather's 70's tapes put to good use, most notably on Anulla. 8bit hoonery on Nemophilist, an ambient collab with DeafBlind on Susurration and wraps up with the nightmarish Grey Boys - just in time for Christmas!

The Grey Boys

A melancholy mix of dusty ambient electronica, with themes of getting older, losing people, looking back at your life...

Apport

The Missing Room feels like a natural successor to the last Whilom release of 2024 - Apport. It leans even further into the lo-fi sound of dirty and worn nostalgia, with synths taking less of a role in place of guitar. In places it leans into something approaching shoegaze or folktronica, though it is brought back to basics a little with the more synth led I Know and the ambient title track, itself a response to an older track - Door With No Room - on the Then I EP. Philosophical spoken word and neo-classical landscaping collide on the collab with Lury Amagawa - You & I Are Earth, which is also represented by an instrumental only version at the end of the album. The passing of the much loved David Lynch informs the tone of both Sonder and Like Regular Chickens.

The Missing Room CD

The Missing Room

My take on Higgy's Banana Lunchbox. More ambient and moody as you might expect.

Banana Lunchbox (Whilom's Shadow-horn remix)

Susseration

Nemophilist

Anulla

Then I

Door With No Room

Way Of The Seven

Harben Day

An attempt to go a bit Lynchian. The Fading Colours is about getting older and noticing the fading colours when you look in the mirror...

The Fading Colours

First track from the new Apport album. A sweetly melancholic and nostalgic synth and glitchy voc affair, with a big crunchy beat - the title should say it all.

People I Knew

Another track from the forthcoming Apport album. Slightly neo-classical in places, this one will tickle your ears.

Murp (Apport version)

Wist I

A beatless version of People I Knew, dedicated to a real gentleman -  Richard M.

People I Knew (for Richard M)

another oldie from the archive, this one from 2003. I think it still slaps!

Silly Arse

spoken word over dirty and moody beats from the album Apport. This version has a freshly recorded (and more intelligible) vocal.

Fuzzy (new voc)

Fuzzy (instrumental)

Mellow and philosophical ambient/neo-classical track, featuring Lury Amagawa providing spoken word beauty.

You & I Are Earth (Feat. Lury Amagawa)

Instrumental only version of the mellow and philosophical ambient/neo-classical track.

You And I Are Earth (instrumental)

Lo-fi and atmospheric twanger. Dedicated to David Lynch.

Like Regular Chickens

Dreams Are Rehearsals

Sonder: the profound feeling of realizing that everyone, including strangers passing in the street, has a life as complex as one's own, which they are constantly living despite one's personal lack of awareness of it.

Sonder

I Know

An ode to the wassailing folk freak himself! 

Mari Lwyd (Room version)

Entit

Palimpsest

remix of I Know from The Missing Room album, by Deafblind

I Know (Deafblind Remix)

Taking It Apart (Album version)

Scappa Flow (True version)

People I Knew (Are You Still There)

Rheostat

Injury Detail

True Are The Nightmares Of Those Who Fear

Hymn For A Butterfly Dream

Joan

Whilom's music is spacious and cinematic. Sometimes described as eerie, or lofi, a bit darker perhaps, and at times slightly grubby or broken. 

Listen out for voices in my tracks of long gone relatives from old tapes made by relatives in the distant past.

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