Shoegaze had definitely reached its pinnacle in 1991, it was the year when My Bloody Valentine's "Loveless" came out, also Ride's "Nowhere" had been released a year before, these two albums earned a huge acclaimed from their audiences in the UK. Inspired by the likes of Slowdive and Ride, Chapterhouse were part of the short-lived Shoegazing scene of the early 90s, but unlike other acts who acquired a set of guitar pedals and headed off to the nearest recording studio, they mixed beats with their wall-of-sonic-guitar-fuzz to create records to stimulate both the mind and the feet!
Chapterhouse's Whirlpool mixed rock freakouts like those found in "Guilt", and the effect-laden
"Falling Down", with drum-driven trips like the fast-moving "Breather",
and the poppy "Pearl." Whirlpool
took its samples and heavily rhythmic beats and mixes them gloriously
into a sea of jangly, distorted guitars especially on lead single
"Pearl". The pop melody was not hidden in this album, it was brilliantly twisted into ways never thought possible by the likes of
this reviewer. Other songs used samples for a similar blending of
cultures, showcasing the band's hard rock side with "Falling Down", a
song which may sound obnoxiously filled with wah-wah pedal foolery but
pays off - like most of these songs do - with an anthemic chorus which glorifies rock until an explosive climax.
The vocals, were one of the key element especially in opener, "Breather". A seductive,
out-of-breath, and atmospheric, they uplift the album with their sense
of content, yet shroud it also in mystery with unintelligible lyrics, there where certain wrong elements like "Treasure" a 6:22 track that practically no one care about it, antoher low points were "Autosleeper" & "April" as the low points on the record too.
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