more from
Carpark Records
We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

The Search for God

by Jimmy Whispers

/
  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Includes unlimited streaming of The Search for God via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 3 days
    edition of 100  2 remaining
    Purchasable with gift card

      $26.99 USD or more 

     

  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Includes unlimited streaming of The Search for God via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 3 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      $25.99 USD or more 

     

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Includes unlimited streaming of The Search for God via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 3 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      $15.99 USD or more 

     

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $9.99 USD  or more

     

1.
2.
Stray Dogs 01:40
3.
4.
Swimming 01:36
5.
6.
7.
8.
Hellscape 01:40
9.
10.

about

The Search for God is a wake-up call for a troubled world that’s still worth saving, animated by a belief in the power of small connections to add up to big changes. At 10 songs delivered in a brief 15 minutes, Jimmy Whispers’ long-awaited sophomore album feels present in a way that feels brand new for the cult auteur. Like many of us, Jimmy has been affected by the pressure of the past few years. After embracing sobriety, and now as a filmmaker sharing the stories of lesser known Los Angeles community members, he’s brought his dreaming down to earth, while turning its direction even further out.

Recorded with his longtime friend Ziyad Asrar of the band Whitney (and re-recorded after a hard drive incident destroyed the original files), The Search for God was created in the wake of Jimmy’s COVID isolation, and returns to some teen influences that are out of step with the chill/lo-fi LA indie rock scene he’s found himself lumped in with. Created mostly with two vintage synths, a single Roland CR5000 drum machine, and a busted karaoke machine, it channels Midwestern emo, the Beach Boys’ Smile, subtle nods at hyper-pop production, and forgotten jewel-box era college radio of the early aughts into a pure pop sound that transcends easy categorization.

The album’s standout single—and its statement of purpose—is “Hellscape,” which packs more into a minute and 40 seconds than you’d think possible: multiple immediately-unforgettable hooks, kaleidoscopic keyboards, and a bracing reminder that even the most transcendent moments are rooted in a world full of suffering. “This is a fucking hellscape,” Jimmy sings. “This is real life / this is happening.”

That may sound like punk nihilism, but The Search for God is anything but. Every lyrical acknowledgment of how fucked things are right now comes with a promise that we can still make positive changes. Jimmy calls it “God”; you might call it Love or Peace or A Place In the Universe That Makes Some Kind of Sense.

Will The Search for God deliver whatever that is to you? Of course not. At its heart, it’s still just a really good pop album. But maybe that’s enough. For a minute or two at a time, Jimmy’s music cracks open a space where the divine can enter our lives. The utopia we’ve all been dreaming of is already here if we’re just willing to build it. Jimmy Whispers is there, ready to add his voice, whenever we want to reach out.

credits

released June 9, 2023

All songs written by Jimmy Whispers aka James Cicero (BMI)
Produced by Jimmy Whispers and Ziyad Asrar
Engineered by Ziyad Asrar at The Prairie, Los Angeles, California
Additional recording by Jimmy Whispers
Mixed by Ziyad Asrar
Mastered by Timothy Stolenwerk

Jimmy Whispers: vocals, keys, drum machines, guitar, piano, samples
Ziyad Asrar: bass guitar, guitar, additional drum machine, live percussion
Sky Cielo: guitar (“ice cream truck” and “stray dogs”)

Artwork and layout design by Zone Catalog
Artwork direction Jimmy Whispers
Innersleeve collage and artwork Jimmy Whispers
Innersleeve photo by Laura Moreau
Back cover photo by Michael Schmelling

license

tags

about

Jimmy Whispers Los Angeles, California

shows

contact / help

Contact Jimmy Whispers

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Jimmy Whispers, you may also like: