Prepare to disappear down the psychedelic rabbit hole once again, riff lovers, because White Hills are back with another dose of mind-bending sonic exploration.
The New York outfit have revealed details of Collected Consciousness, which is set for release on 30 October via Argonauta Records.
For anyone familiar with the wonderfully strange universe inhabited by White Hills, the announcement should immediately prick up a few ears. This is a band that has spent years smashing together psychedelic rock, space rock, noise, electronics and experimental sounds into something that rarely plays by the rules.
And frankly, we wouldnโt want them to start now.
๐ White Hills Are Heading Back Into The Void
White Hills have carved out their own distinctive corner of the underground by refusing to stay comfortably inside any particular musical box.
Heavy riffs can collide with hypnotic repetition. Psychedelic textures can suddenly disappear into walls of noise. Electronic experimentation sits alongside the raw power of rock โnโ roll.
Itโs music designed to take you somewhere.
Preferably somewhere involving enormous speakers, flashing lights and absolutely no idea what dimension youโve just wandered into.
That adventurous approach has helped White Hills establish themselves as a fascinating presence within psychedelic and experimental rock, and Collected Consciousness promises another opportunity to dive into their unconventional musical world.
๐ฟ Collected Consciousness Arrives This October
The newly announced release will arrive on 30 October, courtesy of Argonauta Records.
Itโs an appropriately spooky time of year for a band capable of creating music that can feel simultaneously hypnotic, unsettling and utterly massive.
White Hills have never been about simply throwing together a few riffs, sticking a chorus in the middle and calling it a day.
Their music thrives on atmosphere.
Itโs about repetition, texture, experimentation and allowing songs to develop into something much bigger than their individual ingredients.
Put the headphones on and things can get weird remarkably quickly.
Exactly how we like it.
๐ฅ A Band That Refuses To Stand Still
One of the most interesting things about White Hills has always been their willingness to evolve.
Rather than chasing whatever happens to be fashionable within rock music at any particular moment, the band have continued following their own path through the psychedelic underground.
That independence has allowed them to explore everything from sprawling space-rock journeys to heavier industrial textures and experimental electronics.
Thereโs danger in that approach.
Experimentation doesnโt always result in something comfortable or immediately accessible โ but thatโs rather the point.
Some records are made to sit quietly in the background.
Others demand that you crank the volume, turn the lights down and allow yourself to get completely swallowed by them.
White Hills have traditionally been much closer to the second category.
๐ธ Psychedelic Rock Still Has Plenty Of Places To Go
Announcements like this are also a handy reminder that psychedelic rock remains one of the most gloriously unpredictable corners of the wider rock universe.
The genre doesnโt have to mean simply recreating the sounds of the late 1960s.
Modern psychedelic artists have taken those foundations and dragged them through doom, noise rock, punk, electronic music, shoegaze, industrial sounds and just about every other musical rabbit hole imaginable.
White Hills have spent years proving exactly how far those boundaries can be stretched.
And when a band has built its identity around exploration, every new release brings one particularly intriguing question:
Where the hell are they taking us this time?
๐ค The Riff Report Verdict
Collected Consciousness gives White Hills another chance to unleash their particular brand of sonic madness upon the world.
With Argonauta Records handling the release and 30 October locked into the calendar, fans of psychedelic, experimental and alternative heavy music have another record to keep firmly on their radar.
If you like your rock straightforward, predictable and wrapped neatly in a three-minute package, White Hills might send you running for the hills.
If you prefer riffs surrounded by atmosphere, experimentation and enough psychedelic weirdness to make the walls start breathingโฆ
Now weโre talking.
White Hills are preparing to open the doors once again.
Whether those doors lead somewhere beautiful, terrifying or completely bloody bonkers remains to be seen.
Either way, Collected Consciousness arrives on 30 October.
Turn it up.
Switch off reality.
And see where the noise takes you. ๐๐ธ๐ค
