White Hills - Stolen Stars Left For No One

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5...according to our Brian on Thu 30 Sep, 2010.

White Hills. I'm not allowed to mention these in front of Fackin' Keeler, one of our fave reps. He thinks they've just surfed the wave of psych-rock fashiondom on the tails of the apparently infinitely superior Heads, who funnily enough, everyone laughed at in the 90s for looking like Mudhoney crawling out of a fish 'n' chip shop wheelie bin and playing old Hawkwind riffs. Or summat. I think he's saying they ain't paid their dues. I'm not getting involved in this trans-Atlantic seething match as I think they're both proper rockin' and I own records by the two parties involved. I might have to add this one too, an all-too-brief collection of "lost in time" studio rarities. Side one is a mad, brooding trippy relentless epic, dripping with stoned abandon and featuring a preposterously indulgent caterwauling guitar solo. It bloody rules! On Side two the tracks err more on the cosmic space rock side of things. The din is more cerebral than physical, the production is beautifully murky yet shimmers with life at the same time. I don't know why but there's something in the muffled bass strides, fluttering cymbals, the undulating wall of fuzz & the lilting threads of star-gazing synths that really fucking moves me. Man. Get this or you're a no-friends dirty Joe and your uncle smells of dead cat's bobbys.

· Thrusting space rock into the 21st century and
beyond, White Hills have not so much carved but
blasted out their own niche of Kraut-driven heaviness
and soaring guitar acrobatics of the highest order. The
band’s sonic catalogue is deep and highly sought
after, with every limited release selling out instantly.

· Comprised of three new tracks, ‘Stolen Stars Left For
No One’ was recorded live with no overdubs, with
drumming supplied by long time collaborators Kid
Millions, Antronhy, and Lee Hinshaw.

· The 12” is an edition of 1000 copies, with art inspired
by bootleg LPs of the 70s, and white labels and white
jackets with a printed vintage paper wrap.

· White Hills have spent the year touring heavily,
playing shows with Mudhoney, The Flaming Lips,
Pontiak and Pissed Jeans.

· The band will also be performing at this year’s All
Tomorrow Parties festivals in New York and Minehead.

· “A label like ‘space rock’ deserves music that’s as
nuanced and limitless-feeling as space, and spacerock
deserves a band like White Hills. Not only do they
add urgency to familiar psychedelic rock templates,
but they pay just as close attention to the quiet
moments as the raging ones - each track on their selftitled
Thrill Jockey debut displays a careful layering of
sounds and atmospheres” - Pitchfork.