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Limited Time Only: White Denim $5 Album Deal on Amazon!
- Date: Jan 11
- From: White Denim, Spotlight
- Original Article: Link
Austin, TX rock trio extraordinaire White Denim recently released Fits, a rockin’ album which, to properly kick off the new year, is on Amazon.com for only $5 (limited time only)! Buy your copy today!
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MtvU has just put up Austin, Texas’ own indie rock trio White Denim’s hilarious and highly original video for their first single “I Start To Run”. You won’t just get music out of it, you’ll learn about useful products like the Beardazzler Kit and the Deflect-O Dress which could change your life (sort of).
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White Denim‘s new album, Fits, is fully loaded with catchy basslines, pumping rhythms and singer James Petralli’s unique voice. The album is also packaged with Exposion, The bands 2008 release. Purchase Fits in the format of your choice on iTunes (mp3) and Amazon (mp3, cd and vinyl) today and don’t miss them as they hit the road.
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When a band’s first album is unpredictable enough to invoke comparisons with artists as wildly diverse as hardcore innovators the Minutemen and professorial idiosyncrasy of Randy Newman, then you can reasonably assume its been made by people who care about music. Lots of it. Jazz, punk, funk, country, acid rock, even piano ballads – all these labels have been used, accurately, to describe White Denim. Their second record is more problematic though. It has to sound like them.
Fits; the title is both a knowingly bad pun and a reference to the odd tantrum endured in its creation- manages just that. Anyone familiar with the ferocious drive of the Texan trio’s renowned live shows, where songs merge into each other and the playing guides the direction of the performance, will recognize their approach. Recorded and produced by the band in their infamous studio/trailer, Fits is more coherent than debut Workout Holiday, yet sacrifices none of its imagination. Though there’s barely a pause between tracks the set ebbs and flows, ranging from the soft-hearted to the ferocious.
The band describes it, with only light sarcasm, as The Friendship Record. ‘We were congratulating each other for having good ideas,” says singer/guitarist James Petralli of the sessions, “We went through a lot of positive and negative things and came out of it a lot closer.”
For all the contemplation, Fits is effortlessly fun. There are more elements of jazz and soul than previously. Vocals sit in the mix rather than on top, effectively another instrument. The playing is, again, deft without being showy, and there are melodic hooks to spare. So what’s the secret? “We set the tempos high and set off,” says Petralli. It’s that simple. And it works. In spades.
