Tag: Mouths

Whim will be releasing a new record in early Summer of 2019 with Fluff and Gravy Records, but we just couldn’t wait to get the lead single out to you. “Mouths”is first and foremost a callout song— a song Sarah wrote to call herself out for taking the silent observer position in too many situations where being vocal is imperative. In the days of social media where fake news and political opinions abound, it’s easy to feel like you simultaneously have a voice, and that it’s impossible for you to ever be heard over the clamoring masses. It becomes an existential pitfall when you either say nothing, or you say something and it turns out to be ignored.

The parallels to our current social and political climate were too great to ignore, and although we have not yet even finished recording the LP, we felt like this track needed to be public sooner rather than later. Paste Magazine premiered the track here as their Daily Dose and we will be officially releasing the track digitally on November 2, 4 days before the mid-term elections.

Give it a listen, and spread the word. “We are the people who SHOUT!”

In October of 2013, 17-year old Sarah Isabella DiMuzio walked into a hidden recording studio, armed with an acoustic guitar, a banjolele, and a wistful voice that was impossible to ignore. That studio was the recording arm of Portland’s Fluff and Gravy Records, and label head John Shepski and recording engineer Juniana Lanning were both immediately taken by the earnestness and immediacy of Sarah’s music. Under her stage moniker, Whim, she self-released the 4-song Small Infinity – EP via Bandcamp, catching the attention of the Portland Mercury as well as Northwest Music Scene. It also caught the attention of independent filmmakers, Sean & Matthew Kohnen, and Sarah was hired to write and record 4 additional songs for the feature film, The Funeral Guest.

At age 19, Sarah would move to Galway, Ireland, where she recorded her first full-length album, 400 Days. At the same time, she began licensing her music regularly for television (her songs have appeared in New Girl and Catfish among others). Upon moving back to the US and residing for a time in Nashville, the world of music publishing became a reliable source of income, and a career in music began to look sustainable. 

Now at the age of 22, Sarah has moved back to Portland and will be partnering with Fluff and Gravy Records for a full-length Whim album, titled Abuzz in the Abyss, to be released in the Spring of 2019. The first single is the impossibly catchy indie-pop gem, “Mouths”, to be released on November 2, 2018.