Pipe Dreams

2012 album from the Bay Area Post-Shoegaze sextet. Whirr generates suspenseful songs of soothing, razor sharp guitar textures backed by soft, cooling vocals. On Pipe Dreams, the band's supercharged spirit rejuvenates the '90s Shoegaze sound, providing a widescreen update for the post-millennial era. Whirr's wall of lush guitars, breathy vocals, dreamy synth and thunderous drumming propel listening ears into a near cinematic realm where instantly catchy melodies and emotional, enveloping atmospheres hang perfectly in the balance. The sound of Whirr is a totalizing crush when texture and volume hit perfect balance and bright pop melodies wander through dark, dense guitar noise. Twenty years after My Bloody Valentine awed music fans with it's now-classic Loveless LP, Whirr takes hold of the reins and let's it's fluid, immaculate surge of drones and reverberations light the way.