December 22, 2024

whirr: a reflection on shoegaze

September 17, 2014 Oskar Thompson 2

[embedyt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOYVjIKeSyA[/embedyt] the short: to be clear sway is whirr‘s best album to date. at least my favorite. it’s introspective it’s reflective. it’s self-loathing and obsessed (with noise distortion and reverb as sound… but-no-one-will-listen-to-us-play-one-chord-for-a-half-hour-so-we-better-write-songs obsessed). this

#postrock

January 15, 2014 Oskar Thompson 0

what I enjoy the most about really good postrock is when it becomes very difficult for me to picture humans making these sounds, behind instruments in a studio, with headphones on listening to a click track somewhere