Rocket Recordings, the Bristol-based home to all kinds of heavy psychedelic guitar antics, kicks off a new series of split vinyl LPs with this suitably fuzz and feedback-drenched double-sider, pitching New York's White Hills against Bristolian home crew The Heads. True to form, both bands offer up 20-odd minutes of head-nodding, effects-laden spacerock jams. Things begin as they mean to go on, with the White Hills' 'I Will Find Peace Of Mind' fading in medias res from pealing feedback into a slowly unfolding, deliciously stoned groove, topped with distant, echoey Spacemen 3-esque vocals and a fuzz of psychedelic guitar soloing. After a brief street-recording respite, we hit the flip side, where The Heads' even more epic 'Camden Brain Slurry' blasts off on a particularly monstrous cosmic voyage. Their decidedly heavier instrumental maelstrom throws pummelling drum and bass blasts and eventual krautrock repetitions into walls of rocket-ship guitar, everything screeching and screaming to blistering feedback crescendos, creating a gloriously heady mind-expanding sonic trip.'Collisions V.1' is released on Rocket Recordings on 20th April 2009.
White Hills
The Heads
3 comments:
thats some wicked artwork right there. niiiice.
Aye, it's scrummy. Yet another reason to look out for the vinyl proper when it arrives. It's sure to look extra lovely full-size. I'm not sure who the artist is, but I'll try to find out.
Found out the artist. It's Johnny O Rocket, one of the guys who runs the Rocket label: http://www.myspace.com/johnnyorocket
Looking forward to this vinyl filtering through.
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