Whirlwind (Andrew Gold album)
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| Whirlwind | ||||
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| Released | April 1980[1] | |||
| Recorded | The Sound Factory (Los Angeles, California); Record One (Sherman Oaks, California) | |||
| Genre | Pop, pop rock | |||
| Length | 37:42 | |||
| Label | Asylum | |||
| Producer | Andrew Gold | |||
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Whirlwind is the fourth album by singer-songwriter Andrew Gold, released in 1980 on Asylum Records.[2] It is Gold's final major label album and last solo album of any kind for over a decade.
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [3] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [4] |
Rolling Stone's Stephen Holden called Whirlwind "a well-crafted album of imitation rock by a pop sentimentalist unconvincingly crying tough." Concluding that "the record merely reaffirms Andrew Gold's skill as a meticulous pop interior designer recycling Sixties guitar hooks into blandly tasteful studio settings."[5] Reviewers of Billboard noticed that this album was more rocking than two previous works.[6]
AllMusic's James Chrispell retrospectively noted "[t]he hits were not forthcoming" and the "album came and went in nearly the blink of an eye, and not much else was heard from Andrew Gold's once-promising solo career."[3]