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With just the right blend of psychedelia and hypnotic grooves, WHITE HILLS weaves in and out of anthemic chants, deep space bleeps and other worldly madness for a mix that proves to be intoxicating. Since the release of the bandâ€™s debut CD, listeners have been praising their originality and unique brand of heavy space rock.
WHITE HILLS excellent brand new CD, Glitter Glamour Atrocity, pilots Hawkwind starships fueled on kraut-rock drone, wah-wah pedal freak out, and post-rock ambience. -Village Voice, NYC
Heads On Fire throws down grungy distorted layers of sludge that relentlessly churn along. It's neither subtle nor pretty, but god damn it rocks. They take the space rock template and inject it with a battered fucked-up New York punk spirit. -Drowned In Sound
White Hills is turning out to be quite the surprise of the year. After killing earlier in the year with Glitter Glamour Atrocity and releasing a comparable tour CD, the band has fired back again with the UK release of Heads on Fire. The latest release is just as much of a pummeling psych juggernaut as the rest; merging the Hawkwind style space jams with a tight groove of blistery guitars and trembling bass. The band are waving the Space Rock banner high and proud which has already garnered them support from legends in the field such as Julian Cope, for whom they've opened in the UK. The latest album, despite the relentless output this year shows no trace of being leftovers, but instead another album full of thick plumes of ash and turbulent waves of cosmic radiation. The band thrive in making the calm moments exceedingly liquid while still having a knack for fierce waves of noise ridden psych that leaves the space behind and burns like the earth's core. Given the band's current direction I fully expect to see great things from them in the future. -Raven Sings The Blues
'Heads on Fire' left me completely satiated, having taken me places I'd never expected to go. It's wonderful to discover a band who so wholeheartedly embrace the past without ever letting it constrain their vision for the future. I look forward to hearing more. -Nine Hertz
If Woodstock 1969 were to happen today, White Hills would probably be the brown acid. This isn't the sixties though and this kind of dark, looming psych-rock is as much a reaction to growing up on grunge and death metal as Woodstock was to the polished rock n' roll of the fifties. -Sonic Frontiers
If Julian Cope wants to release a remixed version of your debut album and invites you to play your first gig in U.K. opening for him, you definitely did hit the right note. And that's exactly what has happened to White Hills. The music is noise indulged heavy space rock by way of Hawkwind anno 2007. Extremely fuelled with distorted bass, swirling synthesizers and long fuzz fuelled guitar solos. This band for sure knows its roots and still manages to reinvent the space-/krautrock genre. This is not like Ozric Tentacles - no, it's the dark side of your mind when on acid. Most songs are high energy rockers, but then suddenly the band submerges into a 26 minutes psychedelic nightmare ironically called "Don't be Afraid". This record is a pure mindfuck - but what a great fuck it is! -Delicate Howls Of Wonder
Their previous release,Glitter Glamour Atrocity, found the band experimenting around with a number of different styles from ambient to Krautrock to Spacemen 3 influenced rock, but on their latest outing, White Hills jettisons the experiments to totally consume themselves in balls to the wall, and yep, "heads on fire" total space rock. It's something like Hawkwind on steroids, with pounding drums and throbbing, catchy bass lines, whooshing space synths, barely heard mantra-like vocals, and of course, oodles and oodles of heavy, crushing, effects-laden guitars. -Aural Innovations
Space Rock fans should waste no time getting this album (HEADS ON FIRE). Farflung fans will LOVE this, as will anyone who digs the balls out space metallic jams of early Hawkwind. And solid production has helped White Hills create a MASSIVE sound that will knock you about like some cosmic sledgehammer. Highest recommendation -Roadburn
If you're going to play this kind of gritty garage-bred psychedelia, it stands to reason you should lay it on thick, but maximalism takes on a whole new meaning in White Hills' "Glitter Glamour Atrocity". Among its key ingredients: motorik-mined grooves, cool bass drone, raw-wire monotone riffery, liberally-applied space noises, the lupine hiss of overzealous wah-wah pedals, and sampled radio broadcasts of 9/11 prognosticators and finger-waggers. All of that over feedback squalls and the barest traces of threatening, spitting vocals-- and that's just a part of this eight-minute freakout. It should have been 45 minutes longer. I can't think of a single excess they've left out, nor one they should have. -Pitchfork
WHITE HILLS DISCOGRAPHY
HEADS ON FIRE
Rocket Recordings CD
2007
Also available at Aquarius Records ..
GLITTER GLAMOUR ATROCITY
White Hills Music CD
2007
Also available at Aquarius Records
and at KIM'S 6 St. Marks Place NYC. ..
Abstractions & Mutations CD-r
White Hills Music 2007
Limited Edition CD-r release put together for the White Hills and DÃ¸gtank UK tour in September of 2007.
KOKO CD-r
Self Released 2006
Limited Edition of 50 copies in commemoration of our London debut.
Sold Out
They've Got Blood Like We've Got Blood CD-r
Fuck Off and Di 2005
1st pressing Limited to 100 copies
2nd pressing Limited to 25 copies (w/obi-strip in commemoration of our London debut)
Sold Out
No Game To Play CD-r
Self Released 2006
Limited to 222 copies
Sold Out
COLLABORATIONS/COMPILATIONS
Due To Lack Of Interest Tomorrow Has Been Cancelled
Head Heritage 2005
Head Heritage Sampler from 2005 featuring White Hills, Julian Cope, Comets On Fire, Temple Of Bon Matin, Universal Panzies, DÃ˜GNTANK, The New Lou Reeds, Holy McGrail, Litmus, Sons Of TC Lethbridge, The Suppliers, and Ulysses.
Wish You Weren't Here CD-r
Self Released 2007
Limited to 85 copies (50 in Wood Case, 35 in Jewel Case)
Collaboration with San Francisco based experimental band White Pee.
Verily White Hills CD-r
White Hills Music 2007
Collaboration with NYC based experimental unit VERILY (the brain child of sculpter and circuit bender Charles Goldman) released in commemoration of Verily White Hills performance in December of 2007. Limited Edition CD-r relase of 30 copies.
Phosphene River
Prestigation Records 2007
New release by spoken word artist Dan McGuire. Dan does his spoken pieces over music by White Hills, Kawabata Makoto, Plastic Crimewave Sound, The Heads, Mammatus, Residual Echoes and more. ..

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Music:

Member Since: 2/2/2006
Band Website: whitehillsmusic.com
Band Members: people
Influences: Hawkwind, Neu!, Pink Fairies, T-Rex, Pink Floyd, Borts Minorts, LOOP, The Move, Velvet Underground, Faust, Cluster, Eno, Neil Merryweather, The Stooges, MC5, The Mirrors, Speed Glue & Shinki, Les Rallizes Denudes, CAN, Von LMO, Ashra Temple, Cosmic Jokers, Groundhogs, Amon Duul II, Popol Vuh, Blumfeld, COIL, Sir Lord Baltimore, Van Halen, The Who, PiL, High Tide, Silver Apples, Voltaire, Funkadelic, Savage Republic, Chico Magnetic Band, Harmonia, Circle, Pharaoh Overlord, High Tide, Skullflower, MAIN, Sonic's Rendezvous Band, Mick Ronson, Ramleh, 13th Floor Elevators, La Dusseldorf, AR & Machines, Erkin Koray, Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, Steel Pole Bathtub, Yoko Ono, Lollipop Shoppe, The Litter, Hot Tuna, Franco Battiato, Edgar Broughton Band, Nurse With Wound, The Deviants, Pretty Things, FLIPPER, The Mutants, Die Haut, Blue Cheer, Randy Holden, The Fall and many many more...
Sounds Like: Heavy and spacey, imagine early 70's Hawkwind meets the Cosmic Jokers...deep space instrumental passages flow in and out of hypnotic grooves...fresh and imaginative. HEAD music for 21st Century travelers.
Record Label: Rocket Recordings,White Hills Music, Fuck Off & Di
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Upcoming CD-r Release on Apollolaan

The UK based CD-r label, Apollolaan, will be putting out our next release. The CD-r will be limited to 50 copies and will feature individually hand painted covers. The recording is from a recent show ...
Posted by White Hills on Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:07:00 PST

European Spring Tour 2008 Round-Up

Well&well&well&once again we find ourselves back in NYC after yet another highly successful and satisfying stint on European shores. We had a blast and are already beginning to put the wheels in motio...
Posted by White Hills on Wed, 14 May 2008 09:03:00 PST

WHITE HILLS / GNOD Aquarian Downer Review

Hello...to those of you interested enough to have found your way here.Below is a review from Aquarius Records of the recently released collaboration between White Hills and Manchester's GNOD. This Lim...
Posted by White Hills on Wed, 14 May 2008 07:45:00 PST

UK/European Tour Spring 2008

WHITE HILLS is in coming over to the UK and EUROPE this coming April/May. As for Europe we plan to play Germany, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, and possibly Spain. Anyone interested in booking us a...
Posted by White Hills on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:52:00 PST

WHITE HILLS needs your vote...

just a quick note to ask for your help...we've been nominated for Deli Magazine'sBest Emerging NYC Artist of 2007 poll. if you feel so inclined, please follow thislink... http://www.thedelimagazine.co...
Posted by White Hills on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 06:10:00 PST

Last Release of 2007...VERILY WHITE HILLS

Last night marked our last show of 2007 and our last CD-r Release for 2007. The show was a stunning collaboration between Dave W. of WHITE HILLS and VERILY (the music project of NYC sculptor and circu...
Posted by White Hills on Fri, 21 Dec 2007 08:39:00 PST

Last Show of 2007 & a stunning review of HEADS ON FIRE

Just a quick note to let you all know that we will be playing our last show of the year this coming Thursday. This will be a very special event...WHITE HILLS will be joined by VERILY (the sound projec...
Posted by White Hills on Mon, 17 Dec 2007 07:48:00 PST

HEADS ON FIRE studio report on ROADBURN.COM

There is a WHITE HILLS studio report for our new album HEADS ON FIRE on line at the most excellent ROADBURN website. Here is the link and information on how to get there...http://www.roadburn.com/fra...
Posted by White Hills on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 08:25:00 PST

UK Tour Round-up, New Release "HEADS ON FIRE" and more...

Back in NYC and still decompressing from the amazing UK stint we just completed! We wish it didn't have to end. First off we'd like to give a HUGE thanks to the amazing DØGNTANK. It was an honor and p...
Posted by White Hills on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 01:54:00 PST

WHITE HILLS UK Tour

WHITE HILLS UK Tour SEPTEMBER 2007(dates w/DØGNTANK, GREY DATURAS, & THE NOTORIOUS HI-FI KILLERS)Dates are as follows:20TH BRISTOL (W/ GREY DATURAS from Australia)The Croft, 119 Stokes Croft BS1 3RW22...
Posted by White Hills on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:09:00 PST