Whorn

{{Infobox album

| name = Whorn

| type = studio

| artist = Cows

| cover = Cows Whorn.jpeg

| alt =

| released = {{Start date|1996|3|26}}

| recorded = {{Start date|1996|1}}

| venue =

| studio = Perma Sonic
{{small|(Minneapolis, MN)}}

| 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

}}

{{Music ratings

|rev1 = AllMusic

|rev1score = {{rating|2.5|5}}{{cite web |first=Patrick |last=Kennedy |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=mw0000182685|pure_url=yes}}|title=Cows: Whorn > Review |website=Allmusic |accessdate=July 4, 2015}}

|rev3 = RIP

|rev3score = {{rating|3|5}}{{cite journal |last=columnist |title=Cows: Whorn |journal=RIP |date=July 1996 |page=12 }}

|rev2 = Pitchfork Media

|rev2score = (7.5/10){{cite web|first=Jason |last=Josephes |url=http://pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/c/cows/whorn.shtml |title=Cows: Whorn |publisher=Pitchfork Media |accessdate=July 4, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010629073049/http://pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/c/cows/whorn.shtml |archive-date=June 29, 2001 }}

}}

Whorn is the eighth album by the Minneapolis-based noise rock band The Cows.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZHP-r9-eqdAC&q=Whorn+cows+1996+amphetamine&pg=PA290|title=Alternative Rock|first=Dave|last=Thompson|date=June 20, 2000|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|isbn=9780879306076|via=Google Books}}{{cite magazine |first1=Robin |last1=Edgerton |first2=Ira |last2=Robbins |url=http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=cows |title=Cows |magazine=Trouser Press |year=2007 |accessdate=July 4, 2015}} It was released on March 26, 1996, by Amphetamine Reptile Records.

Production

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.

Critical reception

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."{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1996/06/07/cows-graze-on-caustic-punk/eea84155-cdf0-466b-b75d-7254137fbb92/|title=COWS GRAZE ON CAUSTIC PUNK|first=Mark|last=Jenkins|date=June 7, 1996|via=www.washingtonpost.com}}

Track listing

{{track listing

| all_writing = Cows

| title1 = Divorcee' Moore

| length1 = 5:16

| title2 = A Oven

| length2 = 3:41

| title3 = The Warden

| length3 = 4:33

| title4 = Mas-No Mas

| length4 = 2:33

| title5 = Four Things

| length5 = 3:49

| title6 = Tropic of Cancelled

| length6 = 3:38

| title7 = The New Girl

| length7 = 5:29

| title8 = Organized Meat

| length8 = 4:32

| title9 = Massa Peel

| length9 = 3:23

| title10 = A Gift Called Life

| length10 = 2:09

| title11 = Jikan

| length11 = 11:32

}}

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."

Personnel

Adapted from the Whorn liner notes.{{cite AV media notes |title=Whorn |title-link=Whorn |others=Cows |year=1996 |type=booklet |publisher=Amphetamine Reptile Records |location=Minneapolis, Minnesota}}

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