Artist: Whorl
Album: Maybe It's Better 7"
Release: 1992
Label: Slumberland
Tracklist:
1. Maybe It's Better
2. Christmas
While they started off as The Birthday Party-worship (as Big Jesus Trash Can and the Mind Revolution 7"), D.C. & Baltimore's Whorl (members had connections to Black Tambourine, Powderburns, etc.) soon morphed into something a little more indebted to the gauzy sounds of shoegaze. Of all their other songs, the Maybe It's Better 7" is probably their best material and one of the most overlooked Slumberland releases. The first track is their most outright poppy and accessible, but still retains the darker edge of previous releases. The other song on this 7" is probably their finest moment. "Christmas" sees the band doing the shoegaze thing better than many of the "classic" bands of the pseudo-fantastical genre.
This 7" (and band, for that matter) deserves way more praise than it gets. I hope that some of you give it a good, proper listen because it is seriously amazing. I don't know, I love it.
Download Here
-Adam
Album: Maybe It's Better 7"
Release: 1992
Label: Slumberland
Tracklist:
1. Maybe It's Better
2. Christmas
While they started off as The Birthday Party-worship (as Big Jesus Trash Can and the Mind Revolution 7"), D.C. & Baltimore's Whorl (members had connections to Black Tambourine, Powderburns, etc.) soon morphed into something a little more indebted to the gauzy sounds of shoegaze. Of all their other songs, the Maybe It's Better 7" is probably their best material and one of the most overlooked Slumberland releases. The first track is their most outright poppy and accessible, but still retains the darker edge of previous releases. The other song on this 7" is probably their finest moment. "Christmas" sees the band doing the shoegaze thing better than many of the "classic" bands of the pseudo-fantastical genre.
This 7" (and band, for that matter) deserves way more praise than it gets. I hope that some of you give it a good, proper listen because it is seriously amazing. I don't know, I love it.
Download Here
-Adam
7 comments:
Oh man - so good. Can you post a discography?
It is! I would post that, but I'm missing one of their songs on this live comp 12". I'm about to rip a bunch of stuff, though, and maybe I'll do a Whorl Discography dealie.
-Adam
oh, this is a great 7". i only have this and the mind revolution/stupid shit 7", is there anything else by whorl?
Aside from those 7"s, they have a song on the ...One Last Kiss comp on spinART, a song on the Simple Machines comps Neapolitan Metropolitan 7" Box Set and Fortune Cookie Prize: A Tribute to Beat Happening, and a live song on The Pre-Moon Syndrome Post-Summer (Of Noise) Celebration Week on Sun Dog Propaganda. That's all there is to my knowledge, but I could be mistaken.
-Adam
*songs on
Awesome, please post more.
Bought this way back in day when I was visiting my sister in Silver Spring, MD. Good call.
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