White Denim - ‘Workout Holiday’
Itune’s Gracenote function, (the automatic namy thing) reckons ‘Workout Holiday’, by White Denim, is something called Acid Garage, which if you were to search the itunes music store for, you would find there are very few exponent’s of. Well Mr Steve Jobs and your superbly designed if not eerily omnipresent conglomerate corporation may well be right. Pointless genre quibbles aside, this is a genuinely superb album.
The first single to be lifted from it, 'Lets talk about it' rattles around from New York Dolls chords to Royal Trux breakdowns but with the frank approachability of LCD Soundsystem, while it only hints at the cacophony of musical chaos that abounds on 'Workout Holiday'.
Songs often start with delicate tinkling melodies, accompanied by thoughtful subtle percussion, before slowly winding up and exploding everywhere with an odd implacable precision that frankly, makes my nuts quiver. Before falling into some beautifully voiced lyrics and delicate melodies. The finest example of this being the standout track 'Heart From Us All'.
'Workout Holiday' takes the chord progressions and tonal affects of soundwall shoegaze and melds them with Garage acoustics and something altogether more soulful; melds is the wrong word, too easy, too simple, slams is more appropriate. They slam these elements together in a brilliant musical maelstrom and somehow it makes perfect sense. Fucking ace.
8/10
Review by Oliver Jones
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