Biography
Formed in Boston in 2006.
Lived in Amherst in 2008-2009.
Now loving in bountiful Baltimore, MD.
Jon Lipsomb - guitar, Tim Shaw - bass, Ethan Snyder - drums
Rock band for the ages.
Power trio for the people.
Hyperactive storm from the heavens.
Grunge dressing free jazzers.
Album out nationally on Engine: http://www.amazon.com/Whoarfrost/dp/B004FZAYI4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1300728698&sr=8-1
Press about Whoarfrost:
"This is one of those amazing records that kind of just makes you sit back and go, What?……Whoarfrost’s debut full-length feels so much like a controlled landslide…there isn’t much else like it at all."
Baltimore City Paper Review: http://citypaper.com/music/whoarfrost-em-whoarfrost-em-1.1119115
'As a debut, Whoarfrost have already tackled many of the detriments that seem customary for new bands: an unparalleled sound, skillful interaction, and well-traveled concepts. Fevered and abstruse yet orchestrated and perceptive, the band remains impervious to sloppiness even at their most strident."
Olive Music Blog: http://olive-music.blogspot.com/2011/03/review-whoarfrost-whoarfrost-engine.html
"The self-titled Engine Studios CD by Baltimore's Whoarfrost is hands-down one of the most intense albums we've heard this year. It lays free-jazz energy over a post-hardcore template—as though a Dischord Records outfit like Void or Hoover were being forcibly sucked through an ESP-Disk wormhole."
Time Out New York: http://newyork.timeout.com/music-nightlife/music/1031763/black-cosmic-mother-controlled-bleeding-whoarfrost-zilmrah-casperelect
"I imagine from the length and nature of most of their songs that they are masters of timing, who can improvise noise stretches in the middle of songs, then pull them back together for planned closings. Either way, whatever they were doing worked! I found their playing very exciting,.."
We Love DC show review: http://www.welovedc.com/tag/whoarfrost
For booking, music, or anything dark:
whoarfrost@gmail.com
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