| Whorn | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Cows |
| Cover: | Cows Whorn.jpeg |
| Studio: | Perma Sonic |
| Genre: | Noise rock, post-hardcore |
| Length: | 50:11 |
| Label: | Amphetamine Reptile |
| Producer: | Tim Mac |
| Prev Title: | Old Gold 1989–1991 |
| Prev Year: | 1996 |
| Next Title: | Sorry in Pig Minor |
| Next Year: | 1998 |
Whorn is the eighth album by the Minneapolis-based noise rock band The Cows.[1] [2] It was released on March 26, 1996, by Amphetamine Reptile Records.
Whorn was the band's first time working with Tim Mac since their fourth album Peacetika. During the recording, Tim Mac opted for a "live sound," having the band play together as a whole instead of recording their parts individually.
The Washington Post wrote: "This Minneapolis quartet blares and bleats, its shrillness occasionally augmented by the trombone squalls of singer Shannon Selberg, whose playing is almost as atonal as his singing. The band's new Whorn is perhaps not its most abrasive work, but it's hardly mellow."[3]
Jikan begins with a distorted sample of a Japanese woman speaking, that begins at 0:00 ends at 0:06. The sample is followed by almost 10 minutes of silence (0:06 - 10:06). After the silence, there is a brief hidden track of the band performing a faster, funkier version of "The New Girl."
Adapted from the Whorn liner notes.[4]
| Region | Date | Label | Format | Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1996 | Amphetamine Reptile | CD, LP | AMREP 050 |
| Germany | CD, LP | ARRCD 70/013 | ||
| Poland | CS | ARR MC 017 |