"There are lots of different ways that heavy music can be heavy. It can be aggressive, or brutal, or mean; it can be horrifying or sadistic or difficult or agonizing. Atlanta, Georgia noise rock outfit Whores. (period included!) explore many of these registers, but on their latest record, Gold, they are, above all else, cathartic. The pain this trio put you through is a deeply desired, profoundly satisfying kind of suffering, the kind that lets you scream and ugly cry and expunge every evil feeling, leaving you exhausted and ruined but somehow lighter, cleaner for its passing"