Review

Rarely has an album been so aptly named. Returning to the fray barely a year after Workout Holiday beheaded critics and fans alike, White Denim’s sophomore offering continues in the same wildly spontaneous, spasmodic vein that made their name, defying classification with every jerk and screeching mid-song u-turn. Taking in clattering funk (‘I Start To Run’) frazzled psychedelic garage (‘Radio Milk’) and creeping, bongo-led lounge (‘Sex Prayer’), the album changes moods constantly, often within a few bars. This does tend to strangle some great ideas at birth, stopping great grooves dead just when they threaten to become irresistible, but for many this refusal to play the commercial game will just add to White Denim’s charm. Best just crank it up and enjoy the ride. Lee Gorman

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DOWNLOAD: ‘RADIO MILK HOW CAN YOU STAND IT’, ‘EVERYBODY SOMEBODY’, ‘I START TO RUN’.
FOR FANS OF: MULE, JSBX, ROYAL TRUX.

Posted on: 27th January 2010

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