Whirlpool (Chapterhouse album)

Whirlpool
Studio album by Chapterhouse
Released 1991
June 6, 2006 (reissue)
Recorded February 1990-January 1991
Genre Dream pop, Shoegazing
Length 39:30
Label Dedicated
RCA
Cherry Red
Producer Ralph Jezzard
Jim Warren
Chapterhouse chronology

Sunburst
(1990)
Whirlpool
(1991)
Blood Music
(1993)
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Whirlpool is the debut album by British shoegazing band Chapterhouse. The album was reissued in 2006, on the label Cherry Red, with seven bonus tracks taken from three EPs (Freefall, Sunburst, and Pearl) released in the same time frame as the album. The Cherry Red reissue also included, for the first time, lyrics to all of the songs.[1] The album spent 3 weeks in the UK Album chart in 1991, peaking at 23.[2]

Track listing

  1. "Breather" (Andrew Sherriff) – 4:20
  2. "Pearl" (Sherriff) – 4:52
  3. "Autosleeper" (Stephen Patman) – 4:50
  4. "Treasure" (Patman) – 6:22
  5. "Falling Down" (Sherriff) – 3:58
  6. "April" (Sherriff) – 4:39
  7. "Guilt" (Patman, Sherriff) – 4:15
  8. "If You Want Me" (Russell Barrett, Sherriff) – 2:41
  9. "Something More" (Sherriff) – 3:20

2006 CD Reissue Bonus Tracks

  1. "Need (Somebody)" (Sherriff) – 3:07
  2. "Inside of Me" (Ashley Bates, Patman, Simon Rowe) – 4:40
  3. "Sixteen Years" (Barrett, Sherriff) – 4:41
  4. "Satin Safe" (Patman, Sherriff) – 5:42
  5. "Feel the Same" (Patman, Rowe) – 4:15
  6. "Come Heaven" (Patman) – 5:32
  7. "In My Arms" (Sherriff) – 4:39

The initial and subsequent runs of the Cherry Red CD were pressed using a lossy master source for tracks 1-9, 13 and 14. The corrected version has the reference TC2159 printed on the inner cd ring.[3]

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