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72

Generally favorable reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 8
  2. Negative: 0 out of 8
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  1. Apr 13, 2012
    80
    This combination of fluidity and structure makes Frying On This Rock an absorbing, headphone-centric listen that only demands that the listener turn up the volume and hand over control.
  2. Mar 16, 2012
    80
    It stands on its own two feet and crucially employs a refinement of ideas that proves that space is indeed deep.
  3. Mar 20, 2012
    75
    The album sounds at first like another hypnotically nihilistic White Hills drone-strike. But instead of helping to intensify its cyclical assault, all that practice and preparation seem to have robbed Frying of some of its sizzle.
  4. Magnet
    Mar 20, 2012
    70
    White Hills [cuts to the chase;] the tempos are quicker, hooks more insistent. [No. 85, p.60]
  5. Uncut
    Mar 16, 2012
    70
    On their second release for Thrill Jockey they sometimes clear space in the pummeling blizzard of delay, fuzz and reverb. [Apr 2012, p.88]
  6. Mar 16, 2012
    64
    Frying on This Rock mostly finds White Hills with their freak flags hoisted well above half mast, with any and all overtures toward coherence obscured by billowing clouds of feedback.

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