Welcome to the

meeting of future minds, welcome to oceans far divide, welcome to

flashing hypnotic travels, welcome to suspended grooves unraveled,

welcome to the new Rocket Recordings release to drop

out of the sky..........

‘Gnod Drop Out with

White Hills II’ is the first official collaboration between

two of the most colossal cosmic manglers on the planet, that of astral

rejecters Gnod (Manchester) and

former Rocket, now Thrill Jockey’s spacerock

juggernauts White Hills (New York).

Hot on the heels

from their Not Not Fun sold out release,

as well as countless self unleashed CDRs & various indie label

alliances, Gnod have been stirring

their galactic soup of flashbacked rituals with unpredictable

incendiary results, both on record and as a live experience. Having them

join forces with White Hills for this record is

akin to having the aural equivalent of those 3D magic eye stereograms,

looked at in one way, they just don’t make sense, but seen through the

repetition of the music, the result is out of this world.

Since White Hills last outing with Rocket Recordings on the ‘Collisions’ split with The Heads, the band have

successfully released their debut album for the US label Thrill Jockey and now have

notched up an impressive back catalogue of releases. Their fiery brand

of heavy spacerock has seen them burning up live appearances over the

years as they continue on the path towards uncharted territories.

To celebrate this

thundering union, Rocket Recordings have embarked upon

the release of a double vinyl LP expanding into four phases of

pulsating mantras, awash with all the hypno propulsion both

bands motor skills can pilot.

It’s brimming with

surrendered NEU like patterns,

like both bands driving through ‘Dingerland’ with „LA Woman… blasting from the

rushing air. We have 16 minute elegant ‘Bel Air’ suites, it’s

ebbed & flowing mesmerizing grooves burst with swooping grandiose

synths, like gentle waves, hanging in time. Interjections of oscillating

guitars and keyboards, designed to propel the captured listener into a

trance-inducing sunroof of kosmische blur, rupturing out through the

expansive blue.

The 8 tracks

contained over 4 sides are embedded with 4 long 10 minute plus pieces

& these anchor the whole experience firmly into an exciting haze of

echoing psychedelia, electronic & experimental Krautrock

trippo-nova. After which, all four corners of your mind’s eye have been

consecrated ‘in

Gnod we trust’s’ world of undulating symphonies.