ARTIST: A Whisper In The Noise
TITLE: As The Bluebird Sings
LABEL: 2-3 Recordings/Transdreamer Records
GENRE: Rock
BITRATE: 199kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 49min total
RELEASE DATE: 2006-04-18
RIP DATE: 2006-03-18

Track List

01. The Tale Of Two Doves           4:36
02. As The Bluebird Sings           5:39
03. The Carpenters' Coalmen         3:56
04. Through Wounds We Soon Will     4:16
Stitch
05. Hell's Half Acre                4:10
06. Havoc                           7:05
07. Until The Time It's Over        6:13
08. The Sounding Line               5:38
09. Bridal                          2:45
10. The Times They Are A-Changin'   5:09

Release Notes:

"A Whisper in the Noise evokes a lullaby only half remembered, and the half
remembered suggests a companion melody that (though unheard) is somehow
unspeakably sad." -- Steve Albini

"Think the brilliance of groups like Mogwai, Sigur Ros, Massive Attack, and
then think again," theprp.com

West Dylan Thordson savors solitude. His atmospheric music is a reflection
of his world, his mood, and his environment. Thordson grew up on a large
patch of farmland in rural Minnesota and currently resides and creates in
the Hanska, MN (population 365) abandoned elementary school that he
attended as a child.  The school closed in the early 90’s and is attached
to a high school that shut its doors in the 1960’s. Thordson finds himself
songwriting in the music room he played in as a child and wandering the
empty, haunting halls at night sometimes blasting music throughout.

In 2002 Thordson formed Minneaplis-based A Whisper in the Noise (AWITN)
with Sonja Larson (vocals, violin,) Rachel Drehmann (french horn,) Andrew
Broste (bass,) and Nicholas Conner (drums, percussion). The following year
they released their debut album, Ides of March, with band devotee Steve
Albini recording. Albini needed only two days to capture the beauty,
anger, and sadness that is A Whisper In The Noise. Impressed with the
recording sessions, Albini took AWITN to Europe to open a string of shows
for Shellac.

As The Bluebird Sings, produced by Tom Herbers (Low, Soul Asylum, The
Jayhawks, Victoria Williams and The Church) is ripe with purity and
emotion. When asked how A Whisper in the Noise’s album title As The
Bluebird Sings came about, Thordson replies, “A bluebird will still sing
whether or not the world around it is collapsing. It represents purity to
me.”

A dramatic and dark sense of loneliness, emptiness and intimacy are
reflected within the 10 tracks. From the mysterious melancholy of “Hells
Half Acre” and the heart-tugging vocal-tonal-teardrop of “Through Wounds
We Soon Will Stitch,” to the dynamic balancing of the sweetness of a
lullaby with the sadness of a never-ending-solitary-season demonstrated
in “The Sounding Line”, As The Bluebird Sings’ depth and range is
executed in a precise, yet languid dynamic; overlapping and intermingling
of piano, violin, French horn, children choirs, and haunting vocals over
the bastardized foundation of bass and percussion. The record closes with
a gut-wrenching rendition of Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are A-Changin’”.

A Whisper In the Noise shares musical categorization with bands such as
Black Heart Procession, Red Sparowes, GYBE!, Low and Sigur Ros. Thordson
has been inspired by Philip Glass, John Lennon, Roger Waters and Arvo
Part. Bob Dylan has a place in Thordson’s heart as well. When he was 18
and discovered Time Out of Mind -- “it was the singular album that
changed my life.”

A Whisper In The Noise have toured the UK with Shellac and Mogwai and
were greatly received at All Tomorrow’s Parties Festival in Europe.
They’ve received rave reviews on their homefront in the pages of St.
Paul Pioneer Press, Minneapolis Star Tribune, City Pages, and Pulse of
The Twin Cities as well as in NYC’s highly revered, respected and
influential Village Voice.