{"title":"WHIMM","description":"\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E9X5SFLS4qg?si=Kh9DqK_WKNX4Fcie\" 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","products":[{"product_id":"whimm-no-promotion-lp","title":"WHIMM - No Promotion LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 2nd, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLabel:\u003c\/strong\u003e W.25TH\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.superiorviaduct.com\/collections\/whimm\"\u003eWHIMM\u003c\/a\u003e formed around the shadowy heart of the Toronto post-punk underground over a decade ago. The partnership between Mounir Al Shami and Andrew Matthews has emitted sporadic musical shards over time, while slowly evolving into something so much bigger than its beginnings. Ideas seep out of every corner of \u003cem\u003eNo Promotion\u003c\/em\u003e, showcasing a burning desire to explore and challenge while delivering very direct sonic offerings. The result is an album that feels as if you took the entire Coil discography and smashed it into pieces, assembling these precious songs from the fragments. Or as if Vangelis beckoned Section 25 to the studio in hopes of recording the score to a seedy film. The resulting LP is in a state of flux – equal parts motion and decay.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePatrick Flegel, of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.superiorviaduct.com\/collections\/cindy-lee\"\u003eCindy Lee\u003c\/a\u003e, 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 recorded at Metropolitan United Church in Toronto, 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) with an operatic swirl. \"K'20\" throws you into a claustrophobic and chaotic cab ride (Who is talking? Are those sirens?) 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. Closing with a final apparition in the key of The Caretaker, \"After the Last Sky (Reprise)\" is a return to melody when words lose all meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAl Shami and Matthews weave their lyrics throughout, words describing a search for lucidity, and of reactions and reflections. Al Shami – speaking from the Palestinian diaspora – ruminates on displacement, both personal and collective. His journey from having \"been without a land and I can still see clearly\" in \"Rhymes of December\" to a more defiant \"we will be back again, no matter how it ends or where we've been\" in \"Returnal\" takes a very insular turn on \u003cem\u003eNo Promotion\u003c\/em\u003e. That sense of alienation pulls at the very center of a relationship when land and circumstances separate: \"And after our last breath, all that's left in me is our flesh and fears, your last words would swim for years, you'll never find a home in me.\" Hearts on the outskirts that know the direction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTrack Listing:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFive in Decline\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnother Labour\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReturnal\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRye\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Death Remembered\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRhymes of December\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAfter the Last Sky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eK'20\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNo Promotion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAfter the Last Sky (Reprise)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2944756033\/size=small\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/whimm.bandcamp.com\/album\/no-promotion\"\u003eNo Promotion by WHIMM\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"W.25TH","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54140326117695,"sku":"W25-20","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0219\/8812\/files\/W25-20_web.jpg?v=1784614436"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.superiorviaduct.com\/collections\/whimm.oembed","provider":"Superior Viaduct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}