Echoes and Dust heavy music editor Sander van den Driesche was at this year’s Roadburn Festival, and he finally found some time to write about his experiences.

Splintered Metal Sky is yet another spectacularly sultry and serpentine album that will fit in nicely with White Hills’ already stellar discography. Add this to your record of the year frontrunners.

October 2020 brings the release of Splintered Metal Sky, the long-awaited new instalment in the ever-vast musical cannon of WHITE HILLS. The album takes the listener on a post-punk, psychedelic ride fuelled by industrial-strength fuzz and propelled by …

With the stroke of a Covid-19 pen, Birmingham’s brilliant but lockdowned Supersonic festival became the virtual, Sofasonic. Jared Dix was sitting comfortably and gives us the full DFS. . .

Friday’s five-venue line-ups should well and truly get the Desertfest party spirit underway.

Raw Power Festival 2017Baba Yaga’s Hut presents at The Dome and The Boston Music Room, London, 26-28.05.2017 Photos by Sander van den Driesche

Thematically it continues to dissect and engage in a political manner, always intelligent, forever questioning. Musically, it’s probably their most interesting yet with the sparse nature allowing for the instruments to breathe. White Hills have always been a great band, here they become essential.

Raw Power is on it’s way; if you’re missing it you better have a fucking good reason, otherwise you’ll regret it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow but soon and for the rest of your life.

Psych is much more of a feeling and understanding and after the inevitable fall from favour it will be bands such as the ones featured on Paper Leaves which will leave their indelible mark. By Martyn Coppack

Sander van den Driesche went to Glasgow’s Nice n Sleazy to see White Hills, The Cosmic Dead and Girl Sweat, which was always going to be nothing but a very memorable show.

White Hills, GNOD, The Mind At Large Islington Mill, Manchester, 9.04.2015 Photos by Ed Sprake

It will be interesting to see which way they head next as here is a band who have never stood still for a minute, so much so that they seem determined to discard the past in search of something new. That’s for another day though and for the time being we have this quite remarkable album to devour, and devour it you will. After all, why wouldn’t the idea of White Hills gone dark appeal to you? by Martyn Coppack

As the hordes of psych fans descended upon what can now be seen as the premier psych event in Europe, there was a certain excitement in the air. A feeling that this year was going to be special. This may be one that would go down in the annals of festival history. By Martyn Coppack

“Psychedelic music should reflect what a psychedelic trip is like. It takes you to furthest reaches of the universe and to the deepest darkest places within your soul. It’s beautiful and ugly, comforting and uncomfortable all at the same time.” – Martyn Coppack talks to Dave White from White Hills

A stone cold masterpiece given a fresh lease of life. By Martyn Coppack

While as I type this the 2014 line-up isn’t final, it already contains bands like Barn Owl, Graveyard, Mono, Liars, The Black Lips, Acid Mothers Temple, Earthless, White Hills, Kadavar…just way too many mind blowing acts. All in three days deep in the heart of Texas! I really am excited for this year and I am sure after this Austin Psych Fest, I will be even more amped for next year. By Daniel Chavez

White Hill’s Borderline set manages to combine the direct with the exploratory for an analogue evening of refreshingly unabashed rock and roll that you can easily lose yourself in. By Ross Pike

White Hills have a knack of knowing when too much is enough and letting go just as overkill is reached. So You Are…So You’ll Be may not quite be the best album of the year but it certainly is the best psych album of the year. By Martyn Coppack

An absolute essential album and it is certainly one of my favourite albums of the last 15 years or so. Let’s just see if it can maintain its favoured position for the remaining 87 years, which by when albums will most likely be tattooed on the back of a lab rat, and you listen with your sense of smell. This album will still smell great, I promise you. By Brett Savage

‘psychedelic, space rock wig-outs’ – The405

Music and I have a sort of love-hate relationship. Well, of course I realize that I am giving human traits to music and that is just silly, but I want to illustrate that my never-ending quest for new music can be painful and costly at times, but can al …