The upcoming White Hills album, Frying on This Rock, might be my favorite White Hills album to date. Its riffs are fantastically fuzzed-out and pleasingly pounding, and its grooves are at times motorik and other times lusciously left of the pocket. Synths are added to spatially-stellar affect and the Martin Bisi production is top-notch. Definitely a transportative album. And no, I don’t care that transportative isn’t a word on this dimension, because that’s not where I am when listening to Frying on This Rock.
The album is due out on March 20th on Thrill Jockey records, so pre-order your white or pink vinyl here!
And for now, dig on this killer video created by White Hills own Ego Sensation. Crank it!
Ego says of the video, “The video for ‘Pads of Light’ was filmed in Manhattan mostly over a period of 5 of the coldest days in January 2011. This is our homage to New York City—the place we live and work.
I chose to cover as much of the island as possible at a high speed to create a sense of effortlessness within the massive urban jungle. NYC is a manic depressive’s reality: cruel and unforgiving when your luck is down yet electrifying when the pendulum swings. To survive here requires grace, flexibility and determination: a lithe spirit, a state akin to walking on Pads of Light.”
