Remembering: Whorl

Here is a blast from the past that Slumberland have thrown up on their Soundcloud.

Whorl started in 1987 as Big Jesus Trash Can, driven by a love for The Birthday Party, early Sonic Youth and the Jesus & Mary Chain to pick up guitars and make a noise of their own.

The result was this chunk of minimal nastiness, Mind Revolution. Having no studio experience they didn’t really know that they could overdub guitars so the sound is lean and spare. Pummelling and single-minded, this single neatly encapsulates one side of the early Slumberland sound. Our other track Maybe Its Better, shows their evolution into perhaps their catchiest strum…

The band called it quits in 1991, with members moving on to Nord Express, The Saturday People and a slew of other bands.