{"id":26918,"date":"2017-09-24T12:30:03","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T16:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=26918"},"modified":"2017-09-20T21:38:39","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T01:38:39","slug":"whimm-share-second-sound-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=26918","title":{"rendered":"WHIMM share &#8216;Second Sound&#8217; video"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_26919\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26919\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-26919\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/9c92852d-23a5-4f97-a541-83fd02429f2f.jpg?resize=625%2C418\" alt=\"WHIMM\" width=\"625\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/9c92852d-23a5-4f97-a541-83fd02429f2f.jpg?w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/9c92852d-23a5-4f97-a541-83fd02429f2f.jpg?resize=300%2C201 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/9c92852d-23a5-4f97-a541-83fd02429f2f.jpg?resize=768%2C514 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/9c92852d-23a5-4f97-a541-83fd02429f2f.jpg?resize=624%2C417 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26919\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by: Kyle Knapp<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Toronto&#8217;s\u00a0WHIMM\u00a0have shared the video for their track <em>Second Sound<\/em>.\u00a0The\u00a0video includes appearances from members of fellow Toronto bands such as\u00a0Jimmy Tony from <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2xoLDNQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dilly Dally<\/a>, Erik Jude and Anna Mayberry\u00a0from HSY,\u00a0Patrick\u00a0Flegel and Scarlett Rose\u00a0from Cindy Lee, and\u00a0April Aliermo and Dan Lee from <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2xokPgD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hooded Fang<\/a>\u00a0amidst a barrage of\u00a0black &amp; white 35mm photos shot by WHIMM in Toronto, Beirut, and Amman. Watch the video clip via YouTube below &#8211; beware if you&#8217;re sensitive to flashing images and lights &#8211; this one has some.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/25MsxUCEegk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-CA&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Second Sound<\/em> is the\u00a0latest\u00a0frenetic single lifted from WHIMM&#8217;s\u00a0debut LP,\u00a0&#8216;A Stare Ajar,&#8217;\u00a0due out via\u00a0Pleasence Records on October 27th.\u00a0WHIMM are also\u00a0hitting the road\u00a0for a series of\u00a0live performances with\u00a0artists such as Ice Cream and their Pleasence Records labelmates Blonde Elvis &#8211; see full tour info below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More about WHIMM?<\/strong> For the past three years, Toronto&#8217;s WHIMM have brought the searing intensity of their live performances to\u00a0stages across North America, honed through\u00a0touring\u00a0and shows\u00a0with likeminded artists like Ice Age, Merchandise and Frigs. Singer\/guitarist Mounir Chami, bassist Andrew Matthews, and drummer Jonathan Pappo create ominous, emotionally charged avant-rock fusing spellbinding melodies with an\u00a0urgency akin to\u00a01980s anarcho-punk.<\/p>\n<p>To capture this\u00a0feverish\u00a0sound on\u00a0their debut LP,\u00a0WHIMM tapped producer Dean Tzenos, mastermind of abrasive industrial punks Odonis Odonis. The album&#8217;s 9 tracks were obsessively refined over several months both onstage and in their garage rehearsal space, yet the band purposefully limited recording sessions to two rapid-fire days with engineer Ian Gomes at Toronto&#8217;s Union Sound (Fucked Up, METZ, Greys).<\/p>\n<p>While bottling the band&#8217;s frantic energy, these recordings also\u00a0add\u00a0new dimensions to WHIMM&#8217;s musical landscape, expanding their instrumental palette with violin, piano, and cello from members of Toronto groups HSY, Scott Hardware, and visual artist\u00a0Olenka Syzmonski. The album\u00a0draws on influences ranging from Southern Gothic country, as heard on cinematic opener <em>Ember in the Wheat<\/em>, to the uncompromising experimentation of late period Scott Walker.<\/p>\n<p>Lyrically, the record\u00a0is refracted through multiple fields of vision, gazing at a splintered world through the eyes of the displaced. Perspectives range from an immigrant office worker forced to assimilate to their environment (<em>Ushers<\/em>) to an H.P. Lovecraft-ian\u00a0haunted soul struck and captured by horrific apparitions (<em>A Stare Ajar<\/em>).\u00a0Chami penned these character studies while pulling from the stories of his family and his own experiences as a Palestinian living in Canada, wrestling with\u00a0internal conflicts while feeling trapped between worlds.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I think about being part of a diaspora constantly,&#8221;<\/em> says Chami. <em>&#8220;Between the home where I&#8217;ve been raised and what that demands, and what society and my friendships demand, where do I fit in? How do I stop feeling strange in these environments? I exist in both of them but I don&#8217;t really understand how.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>WHIMM&#8217;s members also exist between musical worlds &#8211; with Chami adding heavenly piano keys to Scott Hardware&#8217;s ecstatic house, Pappo playing drums for hyperactive indie-rockers Hooded Fang, andMatthews working with his own minimal techno project HOST. Rejecting genre boundaries while synthesizing various sonic strategies, the trio finds a kinship in catharsis.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Instead of musical influences, I think about the relationships of instruments and people coming together,&#8221;<\/em> says Pappo. <em>&#8220;We talk a lot about frustration and emotional release. But even though the music sounds aggressive, there&#8217;s always an emotional tenderness or reaching out at its core. It&#8217;s not just pointless frustration; there&#8217;s a trajectory.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>WHIMM&#8217;s A Stare Ajar will be released via Pleasence Records on October 27th.<br \/>\nThe album is now available for <a href=\"http:\/\/hivemindpr.us10.list-manage1.com\/track\/click?u=04780c244c226dd8f0096243b&amp;id=a64a8de67e&amp;e=998dd35436\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pre-order here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mcnImage alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/04780c244c226dd8f0096243b\/images\/f308b054-2567-4aff-9a9c-ecc5c9da4fca.jpg?resize=341%2C363&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"341\" height=\"363\" align=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;A Stare Ajar&#8217; Track list<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1) Ember In The Wheat<br \/>\n2) A Stare Ajar<br \/>\n3) Town Hall<br \/>\n4) Undermine<br \/>\n5) Second Sound<br \/>\n6) Field of Vision<br \/>\n7) Fifth Column<br \/>\n8) Crescent<br \/>\n9) Ushers<\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>WHIMM live dates<\/h4>\n<p>Sept. 21 &#8211; New York &#8211; Silent Barn<br \/>\nNov. 9 &#8211; Guelph &#8211; Van Gogh&#8217;s Ear<br \/>\nNov. 11 &#8211; Hamilton &#8211; HAVN *<br \/>\nNov. 17 &#8211; Toronto &#8211; The Baby G (LP Release) +<br \/>\nNov. 18 &#8211; Sudbury &#8211; Venue TBA *<br \/>\nNov. 24 &#8211; Ottawa &#8211; Pressed<\/p>\n<p>* With Blonde Elvis<br \/>\n+ With\u00a0Ice Cream, Que Lastima, Invisible Out<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Toronto&#8217;s\u00a0WHIMM\u00a0have shared the video for their track Second Sound.\u00a0The\u00a0video includes appearances from members of fellow Toronto bands such as\u00a0Jimmy Tony from Dilly Dally, Erik Jude <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=26918\" title=\"WHIMM share &#8216;Second Sound&#8217; video\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26919,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23,28,29,30],"tags":[6692,925,6691,6456],"class_list":["post-26918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indie","category-music","category-music-video","category-new-release","tag-a-stare-ajar","tag-post-punk","tag-second-sound","tag-whimm"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/9c92852d-23a5-4f97-a541-83fd02429f2f.jpg?fit=1024%2C685","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B2TV-70a","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27223,"url":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=27223","url_meta":{"origin":26918,"position":0},"title":"WHIMM streams debut album &#8216;A Stare Ajar&#8217;","author":"cultureaddicts","date":"November 1, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Toronto avant-rock\u00a0trio WHIMM's\u00a0debut album 'A Stare Ajar'\u00a0is out now. 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