At its best, So You Are... So You'll Be is full of intense thrills, stitched together by the ethereal comedowns it's desperately in need of.
When the band take a decent melody and build a whole track around it, the formula is a winning one; what won’t appeal to some though are the occasional meanderings where the spacey blips and bleeps appear to have no meaningful musical direction.
Between the airless coldness of lunar ambience and the waving freak flag of their most high-power jams, White Hills' voice becomes more defined and more deliberate on this set of songs.
They’ve managed to balance brutality with a controlled ambience that takes nothing away from their distinctive character.
Even though they’re incredibly prolific, they consistently play to all their best strengths, and it shows wonderfully on this album.
#91 | / | Rough Trade |
#95 | / | The Quietus |