White Hills "Walks For Motorists"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Psychedelic, Electronica
Label:  Thrill Jockey
Format: CD, digital, vinyl
Release date: April 7, 2015 (CD, digital),  late April/early May, 2015 (Vinyl)
Tracklist: 
01. No Will
02. £SD or USB
03. Wanderlust
04. Lead the Way
05. I, Nomad
06. We Are What You Are
07. Automated City
08. Life Is Upon You
09. Walks For Motorists
10. May You Be the Sun (bonus track)

Line-up: 
Dave W.
Ego Sensation

Description/Reviews: 

...White Hills embrace electro-synth-rock in a manner that they have only hinted at on previous releases.
OK let’s all be clear on one point here. White Hills have not, for a long while, been so firmly welded to the Hawkwind hard-drive as some commentators would have you believe and have long since charted more sonically adventurous time and space. Even so, the extent to which Dave W and Ego Sensation have delivered this their most diverse offering in terms of both style and substance to date is quite astonishing. Sure their sound is still as anchored in simple and effective repetition as it ever was but their approach seems fresher, more focussed and more challenging. It’s difficult to imagine producer Wrench, with his synth-pop credentials not having some influence over this direction of travel.

 Read the full review by Ian Fraser at terrascope.co.uk

Media/Samples 
Trailer

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White Hills "So You Are. So You'll Be"

Country: USA
Sub Genre: Psychedelic
Label:  Thrill Jockey
Release date: August 20, 2013
Tracklist: 
1. InWords (0:24)
2. In Your Room (5:49)
3. The Internal Monologue (5:30)
4. So You Are. So You'll Be (7:27)
5. OutWords (0:54)
6. Forever In Space (Enlightened) (7:54)
7. Rare Upon the Earth (7:23)
8. Circulating (1:40)
9. Mist (Winter) (6:51)


Line-up: 

Dave W / Guitars, Synthesizer, Vocals
Ego Sensation / Bass, Synthesizer, Vocals
Nick Name / Drums

Description/Reviews: 

After the deconditioning and deprogramming blast of electronic noise which is ‘InWords,’ the album opens properly with the call to arms, ‘In Your Room’ – a skyscraper razing slab of Mudhoney strength mantra metal, which bids you abandon all doubt and fear so you can start your quest into inner space. For tuned in, turned on heads there is ‘The Internal Monologue’, an ecstatic shivering sliver of celestial acidic drone followed by the post-Hawkwind, post Loop transmission of ‘So You Are… So You’ll Be’. There is more computerised deprogramming via ‘OutWords’ before White Hills command that you cower before the altar of the Stoogian proto-riff, the holy Ur-riff, the mind warping, silver machine-tooled hyper riff, that is ‘Forever In Space (Enlightened)’. But after this cataclysmic shock, there is barely time to process what just happened before you are lowered into the howling lysergic swamp rock of ‘Rare Upon The Earth’ with only the echoing synthesized landscape of ‘Circulating’ offering some respite. The album builds effortlessly to the sumptuous ‘MIST (Winter)’ which features a John Carpenter synth line engine inserted into glistening La Dusseldorf chassis, forming some kind of god-like chariot.  Read the full review by John Doran at thrilljockey.com

Media/Samples 
In Your Room

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