White Hills – H-p1 – Thrill Jockey – THRILL276 - ****

Great! A new White Hills album. Objectivity is suspended as the Brooklyn four piece grind their guitars, heavy Seventies Detroit scum punk style, whilst keeping a stormy weather eye on appropriate egghead art strategies.
Thus, the seven minute locked groove of The Condition Of Nothing, a super-dense hard rock drone, abruptly dissolves into the bell like clatter and insect interference of the electro-acoustic collage Movement, and the title track is a revved-up, seventeen minute, biker-booted, space rock classic. For this, their fifth full length, White Hills have added vintage swooshy synthesisers throughout, suggesting a Chomsky Hawkwind, the swords and sorcery schtick swapped for chap-book anti-capitalism.

(5/6/11)