Worship — WHIRR

WHIRR severs us up two just over half-hour slices of walled noise craft from the decidedly mysterious Worship. The project theme all of their releases around the naked female form, and often add in quite creative tendencies to their work.

As with much of this project’s output, this is a digital self-release. Cover artwork wise we have a shadowy picture of a thoughtful-looking blond, lying sideways and naked in an armchair. The release can be downloaded from here. 

The Worship project seemingly started creating in early 2022, with to date just over forty releases to its name- these take in both stand-alone releases and splits. All of the project's work is themed around the worship of the female form, with their release featuring often arty nude pictures of women throughout the ages- though these are never smutty or sleazy- purely celebrate the beauty, shape, power, and grace of womankind. I’ve now reviewed a few of the projects releases, and now know I can rely on the project for well-made & often creative tooled wall matter.

The first track here is “Purr” which comes in at the 32.20 mark. The title is very apt, as the wall is built around a tight, taut and slightly beaded bass purr-which edged by a controlled buffeting ‘n’ baying tone. The whole thing has a wonderful sense of thick bass-bound hover, which seems to be buzzy and lightly caresses your sonic sensors. The buffeting ‘n’ bay element adds a feel of gentle but consistent tonal rustle to proceedings- and this of course pulls you even deeper into the thick and wonderful bass buzz. Around the mid-way point, it seems as if these topping elements have shifted to constant spindle ‘n’ judder like texturing- though, of course, this could just be a trick of the wall. With the track almost pouring itself away at the end as we find a faded blend of slurred bass purr, and condensed chop.

Next and finally, we have “Headspin”-this slides in at the 31.16 mark, and it once again has a most fitting title. The ‘wall’ has a decidedly warped quality- with a mix of muffled ‘n’ slightly bayed bass hack, rattling chop, and cluttering jitter. As the track progresses the layers seem to bleed ‘n’ blend into one another in a most wonkily appealing manner- you try to keep following the patterns, but your minds constantly grabbing at their tails as the whole thing seems to warp more and more….but as always with walled noise, this could all be a trick of the ‘wall’.

In finishing WHIRR features two most rewarding examples of mid-length wall-craft. First, you get appealing ground by the bass purr of the first track, then you get wonderful disorientated by the warped ‘n’ wonky flow of the next track. I'm keen to hear what Worship has for us next - and it would be great to see some physical release from this project too…as they do sit as one of the most interesting/ consistent wall noise projects to appear in the last few years.