WHITE HILLS To Release New Album ‘So You Are… So You’ll Be’ On 19th August + Euro Tour Beckons

WHITE HILLS’ seventh studio album So,You Are… So You’ll Be, (out on 19th August in Europe via Thrill Jockey) features Dave W on guitars, synthesizer & vocals, Ego Sensation on bass, synthesizer & vocals, and Nick Name on drums. The album is their most concentrated blast of psychedelic interstellar rock to date. Building on the solid foundations laid by last year’s excellent Frying On This Rock, they went back to BC Studios, Brooklyn to record once more with Martin Bisi (Sonic Youth, Swans), emerging with a concentrated blast of WHITE HILLS at their fullest potential…

After supporting on Kylesa and then The Cult’s US tours, psych rock finest will be back in Europe this September and October for a huge headline European tour playing across the continent. Current dates are below with more to be added very soon.

Thu Sept 12th Groningen, Netherlands- Vera – [tickets]
Fri Sept 13th Amsterdam, Netherlands – Paradiso Upstairs – [tickets]
Sat Sept 14th Nijmegen, Netherlands – Mereleyn – [tickets]
Sun Sept 15th Utrecht, Netherlands – Ekko – [tickets]
Mon Sept 16th Tilburg, Netherlands – 013 (Incubate Festival) – [tickets]
Tue Sept 17th Aalborg, Denmark – 1000Fryd – [tickets]
Wed Sept 18th Copenhagen, Denmark – Loppen – [tickets]
Thu Sept 19th Malmo, Sweden – Inkonst – [tickets]
Fri Sept 20th Oslo, Norway – Revolver Club
Sat Sept 21st Gothenburg, Sweden – Truckstop Alaska
Wed Sept 25th Helsinki, Finland – Kuudes Linja
Thu Sept 26th Jyvaskyla, Finland – Tanssisali Lutakko
Fri Sept 27th Turku, Finland – Dynamo
Sat Sept 28th Tallinn, Estonia – Von Krahl Theatre Bar
Sun Sept 29th Riga, Latvia – Kanepes Kulturas centrs – [tickets]
Mon Sept 30th Gdansk, Poland – Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art – [tickets]
Thu Oct 3rd Vienna, Austria – Chelsea Club
Fri Oct 4th Rijeka, Croatia – Club Palach
Sat Oct 5th Bologna, Italy – Freak Out Club
Sun Oct 6th Torino, Italy – Blah Blah Cinema
Tue Oct 8th Zurich, Switzerland – Rote Fabrik Ziegel oh Lac
Wed Oct 9th Bern, Switzerland – Reitschule Rossli Bar
Fri Oct 11th Esslingen, Germany – Komma
Sat Oct 12th Siegen, Germany – Vortex Club
Sun Oct 13th Hamburg, Germany – Hafenklang
Mon Oct 14th Cologne, Germany – Sonic Ballroom
Tue Oct 15th Paris, France – Pointe Ephreme
Wed Oct 16th Kortrijk, Belgium – De Kreun – [tickets]
Thu Oct 17th Hasselt, Belgium – Muziekodroom – [tickets]
Fri Oct 18th Charleroi, Belgium – L’Eden – [tickets]
Mon Oct 21st Manchester, UK – Deaf Institute
Tue Oct 22nd London, UK – The Borderline

Read on for more info about ‘So You Are… So You’ll Be’

WHITE HILLS’ seventh studio album SoYou Are… So You’ll Be, features Dave W on guitars, synthesizer & vocals, Ego Sensation on bass, synthesizer & vocals, and Nick Name on drums. The album is their most concentrated blast of psychedelic interstellar rock to date. Building on the solid foundations laid by last year’s excellent Frying On This Rock, they went back to BC Studios, Brooklyn to record once more with Martin Bisi (Sonic Youth, Swans), emerging with a concentrated blast of White Hills at their fullest potential.

So You Are.. is a blazing totem of rock & roll empowerment. After the deconditioning and deprogramming blast of electronic noise which is ‘InWords,’ the album opens properly with the call to arms, ‘In Your Room’ – a skyscraper razing slab of mantra metal, which bids you abandon all doubt and fear so you can start your quest into inner space. ‘The Internal Monologue’ is an ecstatic shivering sliver of celestial acidic drone followed by the post-Hawkwind transmission of ‘So You Are… So You’ll Be’. WHITE HILLS command that you cower before the altar of the the mind warping, machine-tooled riff that is ‘Forever In Space (Enlightened),” but after this cataclysmic shock, there is barely time to process what just happened before you are lowered into the howling lysergic swamp rock of ‘Rare Upon The Earth.’ Only the echoing synthesized landscape of ‘Circulating’ offers some respite. The album builds effortlessly to the sumptuous ‘MIST (Winter)’ which features a John Carpenter synth line engine inserted into glistening La Dusseldorf chassis, forming some kind of god-like chariot.

The band has been touring heavily the last couple of years and are just coming off a national tour with Kylesa, followed by a stint in Europe. Their intense live performances caught the attention of director Jim Jarmusch, who not only used their music in upcoming film Only Lovers Left Alive, but had the band appear in the film, which premiered at Cannes in May. WHITE HILLS have set the international gold standard for what it means to be a space rock band in the 21st century: transportive, heavy, and uncompromising.

‘So You Are… So You’ll Be’ Tracklist:

1. InWords
2. In Your Room
3. The Internal Monologue
4. So You Are… So You’ll Be
5. OutWords
6. Forever in Space (Enlightened)
7. Rare Upon the Earth
8. Circulating
9. MIST (Winter)

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