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| Musicomh |
 Since emerging seemingly from nowhere last year, Austin's White Denim have quickly consolidated a position as one of the only genuinely interesting guitar bands currently active. Their debut album Workout Holiday invigorated a genre yawning with landfill, its sheer energy and invention a much-needed antidote to the tired chord sequences and identikit song structures suffocating us with passivity. It's a tricky sound to define, though, their influences taking in classic rock to post-rock, with nods and sidelong glances to blues, jazz and country and an ongoing tenancy agreement with garage-rock, although to be fair the three-piece actually rehearse in a 1940s trailer. White Denim songs tend to be wily, deceptive things, writhing between styles with a dismissive contempt for structure or convention, an anti-formula that saw them end 2008 etched upon most critics' best-of lists. On the strength of the queue that snaked from the doors of the Great Escape venue they played last month, there's some expectation surrounding their sophomore (in the UK, at least) release....full text |
| Guardian |
| The genre that was once called "college rock" is currently drifting in a distinctly post-graduate direction. But for those who find 2009's US indie vanguard (the Grizzly Animal Projectors, the Dirty Bear Collective, those guys) a little too ethereal for their tastes, this down and dirty Austin, Texas power trio offer a marvellously rocking reality check. White Denim Fits (Full Time Hobby) 2009 No one should mistake White Denim for a back-to-basics enterprise, though. It's the combustible drumming of Josh Block that gives the band its expansive rhythmic template, and his willingness to take things to another level at a moment's notice - whether via the mighty Lars Ulrich drum roll in the middle of All Consolation, or the DFA-style disco percussion of I Start to Run - certainly keeps baby-faced bass player Steve Terebecki and lanky frontman James Petralli on their mettle. Those two are no slouches in the boundary-pushing department either, as the former's strange, dubby interlude, Sex Prayer and the latter's Latino-punk outbreak on Hard Attack testify. Yet White Denim somehow manage to cover all points of the musical compass without ever losing their overall sense of direction. And while this turbulent follow-up will do nothing to allay the anxieties of people who were a little spooked by the sonic hurly-burly of last year's thrilling Workout Holiday, anyone who enjoyed the ride should not hesitate to strap themselves in for the second instalment....full text |
| Guardian |
| White Denim's debut album, 2008's Workout Holiday, was an unpredictable shapeshifter - but it sounds straightforward beside its follow-up. Listening to Fits is such a vertiginous experience, you'd think it was the work not of three musicians but three different bands. The first half is dominated by volatile metalheads with a weakness for hip-hop/pop mash-ups: opening track Radio Milk How Can You Stand It itself sounds like a mash-up, dislocated yet perfectly coherent. That lot are soon joined by a group of psychedelia and funk-loving stoners scouring their ears with free jazz, and a gentle alt.folk act in thrall to soul. With so many disparate elements spliced together, Fits should be a terrible mess, but the Texan trio exercise glorious control throughout, ensuring that every blast of noise has its tender counterpoint. And when they are capable of writing songs as accessible as Paint Yourself and Regina Holding Hands, their playful, fidgety attitude is all the more admirable....full text |
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