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I've been listening to a lot of Whirr lately, and I've got a few thoughts.
1. I miss the good old days
2. In hindsight, they are the reason all of indie music shifted towards shoegaze. Ride and Slowdive reunion albums and countless new bands would not have happened without Whirr making shoegaze the indie zeitgeist of the last decade. 
3. They will never get credit for point 2 because they are 'Canceled' 
4. Despite point 3 they sold out of everything they have released post G.L.O.S.S.GATE, and they have ~850,000 monthly listeners on spotify. 
5. Point 4 should logically make no sense because of Point 3, but it kind of just makes me depressed as hell because it's proof that this band got railroaded by their labels and the music media over some straight up nonsense that got turned into a sociopolitical warzone and they were the only casualty. I hope they get the money and recognition they deserve at some point. Despite there being hundreds of new shoegaze bands, I never hear Whirr named as an influence but the sonic influence is in everything.
 
Also, I wanted to rank the albums/EPs and see what everyone thinks
1.Pipe Dreams
2. Distressor 
3.Feels like you
4.Nothing Split
5. Around
6. Sway

play stupid games, win stupid prizes 

My record habits have honestly gotten much worse since the pandemic began. Around that time I had maybe 10-15 LPs that needed to be spun before filing away. Now I'm at like 100+ LPs and maybe another 50-75 7"s 😮 
I'm actively trying to get better about it.

thanks for your patience with me on this one, y'all. i know there have been some headaches over the last year or so. we've really been going through it. i'm def not trying to make any excuses though and want everyone to be happy with what they ordered. i will say tho, i've had so much support from friends when it gets crazy, but day to day, all customer service, shipping, receiving, inventorying—it's all just me. so it can get kinda backed up sometimes (it is right now). we're bringing on more folks to help soon and gradually rebounding from the whole Awesome Merch fiasco. i can't express how much that knocked us completely on our ass tho. i think we're putting out some of the nicest, high quality, intentionally packaged records of any indie label our size currently despite all that. and i think we're gonna get things more organized and streamlined in the next few months. so, yeah, idk, i am rambling, but i just wanted to say thanks for bearing with us on some super annoying pre-orders. we'll definitely get things humming along again here shortly. 
 
oh! also! anyone getting the "Polaris Blue" variant and finding it doesn't look as intended. we're looking into how this happened as this isn't what we ordered. i was as suprised as any of you. here's some copy pasta i've sent a few people who have emailed to inquire about it:
 
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I remember them posting about his last day on IG a few years ago. He used to do their warehouse stuff and now they have a company that does their fulfillment.

Two Dreams - Complete Variant + CD discography! 

More on the indie pop / power pop side of things but enough dream pop to be wonderful. 
Sobs. They're from Singapore. First record is fantastic. New record coming out on Topshelf. 
 

Trainwreck > s/t > Make Yourself Sick.

Trainwreck > s/t > Make Yourself Sick.

I just emailed the label asking when this will ship and got a reply that 28 October is the current date they're looking at.

I just emailed the label asking when this will ship and got a reply that 28 October is the current date they're looking at.

I just emailed the label asking when this will ship and got a reply that 28 October is the current date they're looking at.

2 more left to go on sale
 

Awesome Distro already sucked big time. 
 
This just makes me detest them even more.

Looks like the UK version has a couple copies posted:
 
https://sumerianmerch.co.uk/collections/circasurvive/products/circa-survive-violent-waves-easter-yellow-process-blue-side-a-b-w-black-splatter
 
Password: CREATURECLUB2022

Black copies are available in the US for a way more reasonable price.
https://shop.brooklynvegan.com/products/birds-in-row-gris-klein-lp?variant=41666117370053&gclid=CjwKCAjw6raYBhB7EiwABge5Kg4ZSzyHy_ljuI10QXyHWmPkZWUoGZ_mq0Bu6gogt8Qhh6luPhsL_hoCCkIQAvD_BwE
https://shop.revolvermag.com/products/birds-in-row-gris-klein-lp?variant=39776873087070&gclid=CjwKCAjw6raYBhB7EiwABge5KiWv5xXGkNmeorUEWKNGUNa8nsHBQk1R2RQ-ngd461oswZY3C10hNRoCbwEQAvD_BwE

Wait what...? I felt that this album's one of the best this year!

Wait what...? I felt that this album's one of the best this year!

Wait what...? I felt that this album's one of the best this year!

Wait what...? I felt that this album's one of the best this year!

Wait what...? I felt that this album's one of the best this year!

I don't like commenting negative things, but it's not really Converge to me. I definitely agree with the above that it would have benefited by having a different name. It doesn't feel like the same band. Songs are soft and wishy-washy, many are too repetitive (Failure Forever a big example to me, I can't stand the cloying melody on it). I dunno. I don't like it, as someone who has been listening to Converge for a long time, and who considered them my favorite band for over a decade now. I always thought Chelsea Wolfe made (subjectively) uninteresting music and that sort of writing style leaked into this album big-time. Some people like that, I don't. WYW and Blood From The Soul already wore me thin with feeling either way too long-winded and soft to me (former) or phoned in (latter)... at least the Umbra Vitae LP was good.
 
I did pre-order it the moment it was announced but ended up cancelling the pre-order (which I don't enjoy doing) because I couldn't see myself doing anything else except selling it when I got it. A big shame, to me, and certainly not expecting anytime soon to get new harsh Converge material. Oh well!
 
I won't go on more because I hate being negative about independent non-radio-fodder music. I can tell the project has passion, but it just does not sit well with me. Should've not been billed as Converge.

Nightmare Eyes is my current favorite.
 
Brodsky said “In just eight lines, I did my best to capture a picture of driving along the Pacific Coast Highway at golden hour several years ago, and what it felt like to share that moment with someone I was in love with at the time.”, made me love Blinded by a Blaze even more.

I would really like the story behind how the cursor on the cover made it through quality control