White Hills - Dead EP
Lovingly pinched from SILive.com: At first blush, names can be misleading. Take White Hills, for example. If you were to think of white as sterile and hills as rolling mounds, you’d have the wrong impression. But if you think of white as in “white hot” and hills as “infinitely sprawling masses,” you’d be right on the money with this group of Brooklyn musicians.
While it seems that more groups than ever are exploring spacey drone and heavy ambient metal, White Hills has shown remarkable panache and a distinctive dexterity in this genre. Its appropriately titled debut, Heads on Fire, was an impressive space rock tour de force — a mix of Hawkwind’s swirling psychedelic boogie freakouts and Pink Floyd’s more pastoral astral explorations.
The latest offering from White Hills, Dead, a very limited, vinyl-only release (1,000 copies), is shorter but reveals more diversity and reference points.
Continue reading: MUSIC REVIEW: White Hills’ new EP ‘Dead’ explores band’s dexterity | Staten Island Entertainment – Music – - SILive.com.
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Yes, White Hills is in the news again. It's about "Dead" so it's about time you listened...........
Their vinyl has sold out so Thrill Jockey is streaming the track off it's site. http://www.thrilljockey.com/catalog/?id=104335
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