| Whirlwind | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Andrew Gold |
| Cover: | WhirlwindAlbum.jpg |
| Released: | 1980 |
| Recorded: | The Sound Factory (Los Angeles, California); Record One (Sherman Oaks, California) |
| Genre: | Pop, pop rock |
| Length: | 37:42 |
| Label: | Asylum |
| Producer: | Andrew Gold |
| Prev Title: | All This and Heaven Too |
| Prev Year: | 1978 |
| Next Title: | …Since 1951 |
| Next Year: | 1996 |
Whirlwind is the fourth album by singer-songwriter Andrew Gold, released in 1980 on Asylum Records.[1] It is Gold's final major label album and last solo album of any kind for over a decade.
Rolling Stone's Stephen Holden called Whirlwind "a well-crafted album of imitation rock by a pop sentimentalist unconvincingly crying tough." Concluding "the record merely reaffirms Andrew Gold's skill as a meticulous pop interior designer recycling Sixties guitar hooks into blandly tasteful studio settings."[2] Reviewers of Billboard noticed that this album was more rocking then two previous works.[3]
AllMusic's James Chrispell retrospectively noted "[t]he hits were not forthcoming" and the "album came and went in nearly the blink of an eye, and not much else was heard from Andrew Gold's once-promising solo career."
All songs written by Andrew Gold, except where noted.