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Review: 'WHITE HILLS'
'Glitter Glamour Atrocity'   

-  Label: 'Thrill Jockey Records'
-  Genre: 'Rock' -  Release Date: '25th August 2014'

Our Rating:
This re-release of White Hills' second album from 2007, complete with new art work, is mainly due to the fact that it includes the song Under Skin or By Name.

This staple in the band’s live set was performed in a night club sequence in Jim Jarmusch's uber-cool vampire movie Only Lovers Left Alive. <

If Hawkwind had started out in the New York underground they would have sounded like this, The album lives up its Ballardian title through its dense mix of social consciousness and psychedelic space punk.

It features the band's original trio line-up of Dave W. (vocals, guitar, synthesizers, and sound collage), Ego Sensation (bass and vocals) and Bob Bellomo (drums).and was recorded at Bellomo’s studio in Passaic, NJ,.   

A spoken word intro, Air Waves, speaks of pure consciousness and pure love but is a far cry from the hippy dream.

Instead, the tracks are linked to broad themes of greed, misinformation, war and hypocrisy during the final years of the Bush administration. This is most evident on their 9/11 song Long Serve Remember in which a Bush interview is radically re-edited to include the line "I was a threat to the United States".

The Twin Towers tragedy also enters the discussion of Glitter Glamour Atrocity, the 14 minute title track. Against the backdrop of a relentless Krautrock beat, one speaker is heard to comment "in devastation there is opportunity".

The atrocities may change but since the issues remain the same, far from sounding dated, this album still hits all the right buttons.

A public service announcement, with guitars.
  author: Martin Raybould

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WHITE HILLS - Glitter Glamour Atrocity