Stop Mute Defeat

Author: WHITE HILLS

Format: Remixes included

PartNumber: djfHqqT4401dzWQf

Release Date: 19-05-2017

Details: The dismal realities, political or otherwise, that are part of our modern world naturallybrinfluence our creative voices. It is in this context that White Hills re-evaluated theirbrapproach to creating a new album. Having continually refined their sound, pushing thebrboundaries of psychedelic music, White Hills flipped the script on Stop Mute Defeat.brDave W. and Ego Sensation have brazenly produced an industrially-charged record thatbrpulsates unlike anything theyve released before.brHard-line, gritty, and intellectually engaged, Stop Mute Defeat is a New York recordbrthrough and through. With this in mind, White Hills drafted Martin Bisi (Sonic Youth, BrianbrEno, Afrika Bambaataa) to mix. White Hills recorded with Bisi on two of their previousbrreleases, Frying On This Rock in 2012 and its follow-up So You Are...So You ll Be, howeverbrStop Mute Defeat is the first time they worked with Martin The Beast Bisi in control ofbrthe mixing board. A native New Yorker who made his name in the city s early hip-hop andbrno-wave scenes, Bisi was attracted to White Hills new material for its distinct early-80sbrMudd Club feel. A dance hall, drug den, and bar, the Mudd Club was one of New York sbrlegendary haunts in the late 1970 s. As a center of an distinct art scene the club served asbra major influence for White Hills and Stop Mute Defeats sound.brFollowing similar techniques to those propagated by William S. Burroughs (a regular atbrMudd Club), Stop Mute Defeat sees White Hills break free from the guitar-driven structurebrof their earlier releases. Reassigning William Burroughs word cut-up technique to music,brDave W. and Ego Sensation deconstruct sound clips to create minimalist but rhythmicallybrcomplex phrases. Title track Stop Mute Defeat layers turbocharged bass loops withbrsqualling guitar samples, to create a sound that calls to mind Xtrmntr-era Primal Scream.br If... 1... 2 goes even further down the rabbit hole, oscillating into the experimentalbrelectro-sound of early 80s Sheffield, UK band Cabaret Voltaire. Meanwhile the taut brawnybrgrind of Attack Mode industrially hardens White Hills rock boundaries to tribal densities.brAppalled by the rampant consumerism and the proliferation of post-truth mythology,brWhite Hills defiant lyricism is at their most philosophically scathing. Condemningbrdoublespeak as Subliminal seduction...a serenade with a grenade, the song Overlord brlaments political and economic opportunism, where In travesty, theres always anotherbrdollar to be made. On Attack Mode meanwhile, a clenched-jawed Dave W. channelsbrthe perverse cynicism of Throbbing Gristle, throwing scorn on societies where misogynybrleads and the objectification of young girls runs free. Exposing Western vulgarity inbrbright light, Stop Mute Defeat is a fearless and necessary denunciation of the political andbreconomic powers that be.brWriting in his seminal postmodern oeuvre Naked Lunch, Burroughs states: Desperationbris the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything theybrhave ever believed in can hope to escape. Rethinking their musical norms, personally andbrmusically diving into uncertain waters, White Hills at once embrace and demonstrate thebrraw power of such abandon.

UPC: 790377044027

EAN: 0790377044027

Model: djfHqqT4401dzWQf

Languages: English

Binding: audioCD

Item Condition: New