Fits [2 CD] by White Denim (CD, Oct-2009, 2 Discs, Downtown)

Album Features
UPC:	0878037011623
Artist:	White Denim
Format:	CD
Release Year:	2009
Record Label:	Downtown
Genre:	Rock & Pop
Number Of Discs:	2

Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Radio Milk How Can You Stand It
2. All Consolation
3. Say What You Want
4. El Hard Attack Dcwyw, El
5. I Start to Run
6. Sex Prayer
7. Mirrored and Reverse
8. Paint Yourself
9. I'd Have It Just the Way We Were
10. Everybody Somebody
11. Regina Holding Hands
12. Syncn

DISC 2:
1. Don't Look That Way at It
2. Transparency
3. Ieiei
4. Wda
5. Heart from Us All
6. You Can't Say
7. Shake Shake Shake
8. All You Really Have to Do
9. All Truckers Roll
10. Migration Wind
11. Sitting

Details
Distributor:	UMG
Recording Type:	Studio
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album Notes
Like the Minutemen, White Denim are a versatile and wholly original trio and never appear to be trying that hard. They're not pretty-faced rockers with aspirations of fame and fortune. They're the beer-drinking sort, who just picked up instruments and formed a band because they could; dudes first and foremost, musicians second. But the kicker is that they're astonishingly good. Texas bandmates Josh Block, Steve Terebecki, and James Petralli have a binding chemistry and a willingness to shift styles at the drop of a hat, as they tear through garage punk to free jazz to psychedelic to prog -- sometimes in the course of a single song. Fits is an appropriate title for White Denim's debut, not just because of the fabric reference, but also because the album is a big heaping pile of nervous fits. The snappy "I Start to Run" begins with stark bass and drums and turns into spazzy blues-based Nuggets rock, before falling into an abyss of prog-on-peyote scales. "Sex Prayer" is a blend of dubby delays and organ rock that becomes increasingly trippy, complete with a head-fake fadeout around the three-minute mark. Meanwhile, the furiously thrashing "El Hard Attack DCWYW," with its Latino-punk eruption, is stark contrast to the acoustic sweetness of "Regina Holding Hands." Fits seems custom-made for vinyl, with a second half that sounds like the works of a completely different band. Side one is more rambunctious (with stoner rock and garage twists), and side two is more sweet (with elements of soul, alternative, and '70s AM rock). Neither half is at all traditional, though. A weird psychedelic mindset is woven through everything, and even though everything constantly seems on the verge of combustion, the songs on Fits always manage to hold together and work themselves out with exciting, engaging results. ~ Jason Lymangrover

Editorial Reviews
[S]ongs open with frantic guitar stabs before down-shifting into salsa-tinged shimmies and spectral Jimi Hendrix-style wails.
Spin

Never sitting in one place, White Denim's music moves like a pendulum switching from one point to the next. Drums scatter like pounding rainfall before a screaming wah wah guitar blows the whole thing to smithereens.
Clash

4 stars out of 5 -- On the moody instrumental 'Sex Prayer', off go the fuzzboxes and in come the organs. It's like a Krautrock Soft Machine.
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