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Artist:	WHITE HILLS
Title:	Heads On Fire
Label:	ROCKET RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.50
Catalog #:	LAUNCH 029CD

Overdue reissue of Heads On Fire, the out-of-print second album by New York's White Hills. Since this release, their first for Rocket, the band have gone to release several very highly regarded albums for Thrill Jockey. Ever changing and always striving to push the envelope, White Hills' album Heads On Fire finds the band playing a heavier style of space-rock. Relentless and punishing, the album kicks off with the spacey swirl of the song "Radiate" and ends with the speed-laden blast of the track "Eternity." Along the way, a mesmerizing blend of growling fuzz/wah guitar, pounding bass, sprawling synth, and chaotic drumming doses one's head three sheets to the wind. Whether it be the mere one-minute track "Return Of Speed Toilet" or the 26+ minute "Don't Be Afraid," the listener will be taken on a ride through a world that is all-encompassing from beginning to end. The band started in New York as a solo project by Dave W. Since then it has turned into a trio, with Ego Sensation (bass) plus various drummers which has included Kid Millions of Oneida fame. Like Oneida, White Hills also share a love for a hard rock stripped of its bombast -- their heavier, dirtier, earthier influences contend with airier atmospheres while combining steadiness with spacious, soaring guitars. These heads are always on fire.

Artist:	WHITE HILLS
Title:	White Hills
Label:	THRILL JOCKEY
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	THR 232CD

"Formed by Dave W. on guitar and Ego Sensation on bass, White Hills are an ever changing entity and always striving to push the envelope. Heads On Fire, out of print on vinyl and CD, was Thrill Jockey's first White Hills release in partnership with London's Rocket Recordings. The album winds through a sonic maze a la Hawkwind, with a nod to the more gritty fuzzed out playing of Mudhoney. The out of print Dead EP that followed, explored more drone heavy territory and textured soundscapes. White Hills finds the band at a break through point musically. It is still heavy and would certainly be labelled 'Space Rock' but it finds the band employing a more open and free flowing style of playing."

Artist:	WHITE HILLS
Title:	H-p1
Label:	THRILL JOCKEY
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	THR 276CD

"Musically, H-p1, White Hills' second full-length for Thrill Jockey, expands on the explorations of previous albums in ambience, noise, and space rock all led by guitarist Dave W.'s blistering guitar solos. The cover is a stark, colorless landscape, a metaphor for the status quo, while the inside and the record are an attempt to break free from this bland existence. The music and the photo inside are loud, colorful, exuberant, and alive. H-p1 is the cry for the disenfranchised, the exposure of the ills that the corporate-controlled governmental system has put in place. This seventeen minute song is the summation of the album, the point when the protagonist delivers his realization and vision of a solution to the masses. There is another way. You don't have to be a drone."

Artist:	WHITE HILLS
Title:	Frying On This Rock
Label:	THRILL JOCKEY
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	THR 298CD

"White Hills' newest and most energized recording to date is bursting with raw energy packed into their most concise songs to date. Frying on this Rock opens with an under five minute scorcher and closes with a 15 minute track that reminds us why space rock gatekeepers like Julian Cope were very early supporters. An album that is at once able to channel the energy born of a collective anger into a swirling psychedelic, brutalizing musical statement that mainlines the thrill of defiance straight to the listener's heart."

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Artist:	WHITE HILLS
Title:	Live At Roadburn 2011
Label:	ROADBURN RECORDS (NETHERLANDS)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	RBR 023CD