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Aug 12, 2011Rock music's era of overarching influence on culture has no doubt passed into the historical twilight, but artistry and ambition in the form is alive and well on records like Hp-1.
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Jun 30, 2011In spite of the ostensible lull of its distorted, discordant undertow, the album forcibly draws attention, not just to itself, but to the corrupted world around it. Rarely has an album so narcotic felt so sobering.
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MojoDec 12, 2011Might well be their strongest, most brain-mulching statement to date. [Aug. 2011, p. 106]
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Aug 15, 2011Anyone seeking the nightmarish flipside of a Herzog soundtrack will find H-p1 a rewarding listen.
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UncutJul 28, 2011Guitarist Dave W and company gather up Krautrock, Loop, Acid Mothers Temple, Cul De Sac and a host of other materials with radioactive long life to create a fusion intended as toxic blowback in the faces of right-wing America. It's a face-melting combination. [Aug 2011, p.104]
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Jul 8, 2011Such lofty posturing could have easily ended up sounding like the ill-informed scribblings of a sixth-form politics student, but H-p1 is more about mood, feel and texture than lyrical conceit.
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Jun 30, 2011It's easy to see how the impact of this sort of music might be lost on record, but White Hills put their studio to great use here, proving they can sound both impressively cohesive and totally baked.
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Aug 3, 2011Some listeners might run screaming but the band's tenacity is admirable, which keeps it exciting.
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Jul 7, 2011If one didn't care for White Hills before, this won't change a mind. Of their recorded material, however, White Hills' latest is perhaps their best; short of an in-person experience of the band's eardrum-shattering performances
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Jun 30, 2011Despite White Hills' plentiful output, pacing remains a problem for the group. Live, as they run marathons around a riff, that's less of an issue; you're surrounded in the moment, lost in the feeling. On H–p1, though, it means you spend half of your time waiting to reach the crest.
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Jun 30, 2011White Hills may not be blazing any new musical pathways, but there is no denying that they're good at what they do.
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The WireAug 17, 2011H-p1 is a slightly more adventurous outing than usual, due to the recruitment of synth player Shazzula, but the additional textures, pleasing as they are, fail to revolutionize what is essentially record collection rock. [Jul 2011, p.58]