Rocket Recordings is proud to announce the forthcoming release of the all new Collision Series. We celebrate Volume 1 by coupling together two monolithic fuzzed transmissions by gods of heavy psyche, New Yorks White Hills and UK legends The Heads. Ltd to a 1000 copies, this vinyl LP, should be in orbit for the end of April, more to come soon...
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.
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 band’s debut CD, listeners have been praising their originality
and unique brand of heavy space rock.
A real contender for psych-rock single of the year, this 7" finds two of today's foremost acts in the field (White Hills and Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno) taking on classic Hawkwind material. 'Brainstorm' is ravaged by AMT, who thrash out in fine style with an expanded arsenal of swooping oscillators and spooky theremin-style pitchshifting. It's an absolute riot, but White Hills prove themselves to be more than a match, tearing 'Be Yourself' a new one (to coin a phrase) laying on the fuzz by the barrow-load, cutting through the fudge with some class-A shred and all-round soloing majesty. Oof... -Bookmat
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 Limited Edition Vinyl Pressing released by Thrill Jockey Records
2009
also available in High Quality MP3 format at , iTunes, and many other online digital services.
Originally released by Rocket Recordings on CD
2007
Also available at Aquarius Records,Thrill Jockey, and all good record stores worldwide.
Collisions V.1
Rocket Recordings - Launch 033
2009
First release in a series by Rocket Recordings known as "Collisions". This LP features White Hills track "I Will Find Peace Of Mind" and The Heads track "Camden Brain Slurry". Limited to 1000 copies (300 Orange [150 of which have a poster] / 700 Black).
A Little Bliss Forever FIRST PRESSING out-of-print 2nd Pressing COMING SOON
Drug Space - Dosage 101 LP
2008
Available at Aquarius Records and in NYC at Other Music, Academy Records Annex, Ear Wax, Sound Fix, and Eat Records
GLITTER GLAMOUR ATROCITY
White Hills Music CD
2007
Also available at Aquarius Records and at Thrill Jockey and all good record stores worldwide.
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Abstractions & Mutations CD-r
White Hills Music 2007
Limited Edition CD-r release put together for the White Hills and Døgtank UK tour in September of 2007.
KOKOCD-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
Records Toreism Thrill Jockey 2009
Limited Edition LP release in celebration of Record Store Day (April 18, 2009). Thrill Jockey pressed 900 copies of the LP Records Toreism. It comes stuffed with a zine with contributions by everyone from Ian MacKaye to Trouser Press's Ira Roberts. The LP features contributions from WHITE HILLS, Tortoise, Mountains, Double Dagger, and Trans Am.
WHITE HILLS/Acid Mothers Temple - Sonic Attack (Psychedelic Warlords) Trensmat 2008
Limited Edition 45 sees both bands tearing up classic Hawkwind songs. "A real contender for psych-rock single of the year, this 7" finds two of today's foremost acts in the field (White Hills and Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno) taking on classic Hawkwind material. 'Brainstorm' is ravaged by AMT, who thrash out in fine style with an expanded arsenal of swooping oscillators and spooky theremin-style pitchshifting. It's an absolute riot, but White Hills prove themselves to be more than a match, tearing 'Be Yourself' a new one (to coin a phrase) laying on the fuzz by the barrow-load, cutting through the fudge with some class-A shred and all-round soloing majesty." -Bookmat.com
WHITE HILLS/GNOD - Aquarian Downer White Hills Music 2007
A meeting of the minds with fellow Space Travelers, GNOD, from Manchester, UK.
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, DØGNTANK, 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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The slingers and I are currently in the planning stages of a fall euro tour for GR, fall euro tour for the slingers, and an early spring US slingers tour. Currently looking for other acts to join the tours; shoot me a message via the contacts below if interested. Mammoth Wave is also always looking for new artists to work with so get in touch if we can be of assistance.
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Shawn Glover Mammoth Wave Media 237 E. 11th Ave. Columbus, OH 43201 (419)-205-7377 shawnglover@gmail.com mammothwave@gmail.com twitter.com/MOTCA
26 minutes of "Don't Be Afraid" I believe was taken from the soundtrack of that delicious nightmare I had with the 100ft tall yeti wreaking havoc on a massive pink mountaintop under a lightning-filled dark green sky. Thanks for putting it down on record!
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