“Whirring” by Joy Formidable

"Whirring" first surfaced on A Balloon Called Moaning, the Welsh band the Joy Formidable's debut EP, and came back around on their first full album, The Big Roar, in 2011. Ritzy Bryan and Rhydian Dafydd wrote it, and the band produced and recorded it themselves, which suits a song that sounds like it was built to be played at maximum volume: a racing guitar pulse that keeps climbing until the chorus blows the doors off.

When Pitchfork counted down the best tracks of 2011, it came in at number 68. There are two videos. Dain Bedford shot the first in North Wales in 2009; Christopher Mills made the second in 2011, a surreal trip through a house overrun with cats, the band sinking down through it floor by floor.

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