Description:	Split LP on Rocket
	Format:	LP (vinyl)
	Genre(s):	Psychedelia / Space Rock
	Label:	Rocket
	Price:	£12.79
	Availability:	Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry!

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...according to our Brian on 17 April 2009.

What I need today is some heavy psych stoner rock. The Heads who formed in Bristol back in the dark ages and NY's White Hills have a smart double header LP out on Rocket. I think people are starting to realise how important The Heads are now, they've been plugging their dirgy, brooding acid fried sound for years now and everytime I hear one of their records it makes me wanna grow long hair and rock out like a mofo and emulate goddess of lunge, Roxanne Faith Healer. The one long track on here, 'Camden Brain Slurry' is utterly fabulous. The bass playing is like Tracey Pew's from The Birthday Party, menacingly hypnotic and the guitar noise ranges from caustic sheets of white noise to strung out & fucked up soloing. The beautifully paced tumbling drums, just keep on trucking like you get on an OM record. To top it, the vocals are somewhere between Spacemen 3 & Ian Curtis, a nihilistic reedy chant, spilling with poison. Sprightlier than some of the slo-core doomers but probably heavier on the acid and freak out than most, their blend is scintilating. White Hills are psychedelic mofos too but sound a little more retro. Theirs is a Jimi Hendrix-esque freak out called 'I Will Find Peace of Mind' out that doesn't quite take me to the same place but is absorbing, lively and chaotic enough for me to sit up and take notice. I especially love the wah wah & filtering effects the guitarist endorses, he's well adventurous. It doesn't feature the 5 minute drum solo i'd been building myself up for mind.......Well banging, this fine double header is already shitting out & I reckon won't be standing around for too long so get yr skates on party dudes PS WE'VE JUST FOUND OUT THE LABELS ON THE RECORD ARE REVERSED SO YOU MAY WANNA REVERSE THE REVIEW.....

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What their label says...

Rocket Recordings are proud to announce the release of the all new Collision Series.  We celebrate Volume 1 of this series by coupling together two monolithic fuzzed transmissions by gods of heavy psychedelia, New Yorks White Hills and the UK legends The Heads. The record survey’s both bands voyage towards a single lengthy Incursion, a whole side of burnout bliss. Each track will navigate the listener to explore Rocket flight paths until he/she is gasping for time in the air lock.  White Hills ‘I Will Find Peace of Mind’ traces paths explored on previous Rocket favourite  Heads on Fire (Launch 029), but this time the journey expands till it kicks the dust storms into a  spacerock void. The slow pulse of pounding bass and pendulums of fuzz guitar swirl like a battle against unleashed elements, lost in the bottomless depths of the cosmos. Head for the wind, dark and frozen. Finally the whole piece concludes with a field recording gradually fading out into eternity. A parallel previously harvested by the freaks of Finland in the early 70’s. With an all together heavier payload, The Heads ‘Camden Brain Slurry’ pilots further uncharted territory. From the off, the thrust of the entire band pummel the onboard circuits until the propulsion dials are  teetering in the red, until it’s eventually time to bailout in a free fall haze of fuzz and feeback.  Then the fun begins. In microbursts of repetitive transmission’s The Heads signal the ether before the engines are re-fired in hypnotic thrusts of distortion, eventually suffocating you until your brain screams for release. This is when we resume our journey with The Heads marching on in a Krautrock blitz until red eyes have taken them and you have to lower your landing gear. Both bands can be visited live at Festivals and stages throughout Europe during the months of April and May, check their myspace pages for full details www.myspace.com/whitehills and  www.myspace.com/theheadsrock The Rocket ‘Collision Series’ will continue with Volume 2 later in the year, this time two great American masters of repetition are unleashed, Brooklyns Oneida and Cave from Chicago.