Name: Splintered Metal Sky
Brand: White Hills

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GOD070

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Limited edition

Release date

2020-12-04

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5024545901115

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Artist

White Hills

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Psychedelic

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God Unknown Records

Established in 2013, God Unknown Records is a subscription label run by a2481133, the bass player of UK psychedelic rock band Mugstar. With extensive connections to the music scene, a2481133 has successfully curated an impressive lineup of bands for his singles series. The label prioritizes its subscribers, ensuring that most copies are reserved for them while also providing opportunities for the featured bands.

New York’s critically acclaimed WHITE HILLS has garnered a reputation as one of the most prolific bands of their generation. They have composed numerous studio albums, EPs, singles, tour only releases and collaborations since their inception. Blending genres and styles, WHITE HILLS has been described as Krautrock, Industrial, Psychedelic, Goth, Post-Punk, Ambient and more. The band describes themselves as Motorik Fuzz Art-Rock. Comprised of core members Ego Sensation and Dave W., WHITE HILLS has toured extensively throughout Europe and North America and appears in Jim Jarmusch’s film Only Lovers Left Alive.

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Splintered Metal Sky, the long-awaited new installment in the ever vast musical cannon of Wite Hills. The album takes the listener on a post-punk, psychedelic ride fueled by industrial-strength fuzz and propelled by powerful beats where songs weave in and out of each other to imitate the rhythm of the city the band calls home. Splintered Metal Sky is about oscillation and evolution. It’s metamodern music looking at human existence in relation to technology and the hyper-driven architectural reshaping of a city. The music was largely inspired by the drone and roar of machinery pulsing through New York City, which is in a never-ending state of demolition and reconstruction. Dave and Ego took to the streets, gathering field recordings of sounds from the subway, drills, jackhammers, people in parks, traffic, mayhem and the occasional silence.

These recordings were then manipulated and constructed into rhythmic lines that were used as the basis for songs. The music, mixing noise with disciplined beat, embodies the paradoxical nature of the city: the grimy littered dead end alley just steps away from the sleek luxury skyscraper; the half eaten chicken bone being devoured by a rat on the subway tracks just beneath the glittering facade of the Chrysler building; the endless milling about of the 8 million people who call this slab of land home on their way to and from everywhere and nowhere. Informed by industrial innovators Einstürzende Neubauten and SPK, the avant garde post-punk of Tuxedomoon and the dub-electro of Cabaret Voltaire, the album vibrates with the energy of a sensually feral, raw beast.

Splintered Metal Sky

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