NFOP x Noisekölln Present: White Hex.

08 Feb 2012 — NFOP

Words: Michael Aniser White Hex are Jimi Kritzler and Tara Green who got together in their native Australia, where they both lived in a “decrepit old house for neighborhood criminals, junkies, scumbags and teenagers“. This environment perhaps explains songs such as the sluggish drag "Holiday", which sounds like listening to early Bauhaus songs on loads of downer. Now residing in Berlin, the duo's main influence is, as they say, the Whitehouse album Erector. This early record by the über-sexual noise gang based around William Bennet became important in the shift from industrial sounds to harsh noise back in the early 80s. But no worries, White Hex are everything but a harsh noise project. Their sound is a perfect antidote for the cold winter hours, oscillating between lush guitars and Tara's beautifully worn-out voice. The latest venture of Jimi Kritzler, who is also member of the critically acclaimed Brisbane band Slug Guts, takes the post-punk of his main outfit's 2011 album Howlin’ Gang a step further and resolves into something the duo likes to calls “tropical goth”. White Hex's debut record Heat is due sometime in the first half of 2012, but in the meantime you should catch them for a secretish basement show presented by NFOP and Noisekölln Berlin at Neukölln's The Zone, Reuterstraße 95, tomorrow. For further details go here. Read more →