Whorn is the eighth album by the Minneapolis-based noise rock band The Cows

The Cows

Cows are a post-hardcore/punk blues band from Minneapolis, Minnesota. The band formed in 1987 and disbanded in 1998. They were known for a unique mixture of punk rock and blues played with large amounts of noise and surreal humour; their music is often considered noise rock...

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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.

Track listing

1. "Divorcee' Moore" - 5:16
2. "A Oven" - 3:41
3. "The Warden" - 4:33
4. "Mas-No Mas" - 2:33
5. "Four Things" - 3:49
6. "Tropic of Cancelled" - 3:38
7. "The New Girl" - 5:29
8. "Organized Meat" - 4:32
9. "Massa Peel" - 3:23
10. "A Gift Called Life" - 2:09
11. "Jikan" - 11:32

Jikan begins with a distorted sample of a Japanese woman speaking, followed by almost ten minutes of silence. After this silence, there is a brief track of the band performing a faster, funkier version of "The New Girl".

Personnel

Cows

• Thor Eisentrager
  Thor Eisentrager
  Thor Eisentrager is a founding member and former guitarist for the Minneapolis-based Noise rock outfit Cows. After the release of the Cows's ninth album, Sorry in Pig Minor, Thor announced that he had grown tired of touring and left the band. The remaining members disbanded shortly thereafter...
  
   – guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  
• Kevin Rutmanis
  Kevin Rutmanis
  Kevin Rutmanis is an American bass guitarist. He is of Latvian descent. In late 1985, along with his younger brother Sandris Rutmanis, Thor Eisentrager, and then Jayhawks drummer Norm Rogers started the band The Cows. After the dissolution of The Cows, Rutmanis was the bass guitar player for The...
  
   – bass guitar
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Shannon Selberg
  Shannon Selberg
  Shannon Selberg is a noise/punk rock musician known for his unusual antics on stage. Formerly the frontman for the Minneapolis-based group The Cows, Selberg provided lead vocals, trumpet, bugle and hardcore guitar...
  
   – vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  , bugle
  Bugle (instrument)
  The bugle is one of the simplest brass instruments, having no valves or other pitch-altering devices. All pitch control is done by varying the player's embouchure, since the bugle has no other mechanism for controlling pitch. Consequently, the bugle is limited to notes within the harmonic series...
  
  
• Freddy Votel – drums
  Drum kit
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Additional musicians and production

• Randy Hawkins – mixing
  Audio mixing (recorded music)
  In audio recording, audio mixing is the process by which multiple recorded sounds are combined into one or more channels, most commonly two-channel stereo. In the process, the source signals' level, frequency content, dynamics, and panoramic position are manipulated and effects such as reverb may...
  
  
• Tim Mac – production
  Record producer
  A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
  
  , mixing