WHITE HILLS + THOUGHT FORMS & DIN MARTIN
The Croft, Bristol, 19th March 2012
This was my first visit to The Croft and, unfamiliar with
the layout of the place, I stumble into a side room and witness a young
punk/metal band performing a rousing fist-pumping rendition of ‘Am I Evil’ by
Diamondhead. As it turns out I was in the wrong place but the young chaps
playing (The Hellcats?) raise my spirits before the night’s proceedings proper
begin.
Now in the
right room I’m just in time to see catch the first number of opening band, DIN
Martin’s set. The young Germans are extremely competent though something about
their experimental art rock fails to strike a chord with me. Occasionally they
whip up a righteous effects-driven maelstrom but many of their songs just left
me cold and I’m left wishing quite frankly that I was still watching the
shambolic charm of The Hellcats.
Thought
Forms take the stage in an unassuming fashion but proceed to deliver an
absolutely storming set of droning noise rock. Powered by muscular rhythms,
their slacker soundscapes are both raw and monumental. Here’s a band that
deserve a headline slot – I could have watched them for hours.
White Hills
are absolutely at the top of the game currently with a superb new album Frying On This Rock and a live show so
monstrous it could open up a new rift in the time-space continuum. Their
riff-heavy multi-dimensional spacerock is shot through with the spice of dark
glamour and nerve-shredding psychedelic joyrides from guitarist/vocalist Dave
W’s fretboard. On the opposite side of the stage, bassist Ego Sensation is the
epitome of astral allure and the band are never too far way from lift-off to
the stratosphere on another megalithic jam. Catch them on this tour while you
can, less these star children are planning to one day return to their own solar
system.
Austin Matthews
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