{"product_id":"whimm-no-promotion-lp","title":"* PREORDER * WHIMM - No Promotion LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e* PREORDER * expected to arrive early-mid Oct\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHighly recommended.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMounir Al Shami and Andrew Matthews have emitted sporadic musical shards over time, while slowly evolving into something so much bigger than its beginnings. No Promotion showcases a burning desire to explore and challenge while delivering very direct sonic offerings. It's an LP that feels as if you took the Coil discography and smashed it into pieces, assembling these precious songs from the fragments. Or as if Vangelis beckoned Section 25 in hopes of recording the score to a seedy film.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePatrick Flegel, of Cindy Lee, welcomed Al Shami and Matthews into REALISTIK Studios in Montreal to engineer half of the tracks for the album, including lending guitar to the opening track “Five in Decline.” That influence is evident early on, as the first three songs are taken from those sessions. “Five in Decline” throbs and barks before racing through the hallways closing in around it. “Another Labour” slows to a spidery waltz as anxious melodies call out to one another. “Returnal” pulses, floats through the night sky and haunts you forever. “Rye” carves a percussive pathway toward similar travellers like Terry Riley and Jon Hassell, before the lament of “A Death Remembered” forms the perfect midpoint for the record. A slow build countered by twitching drums and blanketed by organs, it feels like emotion right on the edge of resolve.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Rhymes of December” screeches through on a solitary train under the towering cityscape as the flickering lights blur past, its doors opening to the candlelit altar of “After the Last Sky” (those beautiful organs again). “K’20” throws you into a claustrophobic and chaotic cab ride until you finally find the quiet of the early morning, waiting at the window for the sun to join you once again as the first notes of “No Promotion” are delicately plucked. The final song from the Flegel sessions, it is over eight minutes of contemplative beauty. A restless heart that is ready to rest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E9X5SFLS4qg?si=oLdw0O3M-CnwSkTT\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"W.25th","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44650356506666,"sku":"WHIMM - No Promotion LP","price":47.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1273\/6111\/files\/whimm-nopromotion.jpg?v=1785803228","url":"https:\/\/www.strangeworldrecords.com.au\/products\/whimm-no-promotion-lp","provider":"Strangeworld Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}