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This cover is about ten days old at this point, so you may have already seen it kicking around at other blogs. I must admit that I saw it elsewhere, thought to grab it, but then forgot, so it languished in the recesses of my brain for a bit before I remembered to download it.
White Denim’s new album D will be released next week, and it’s easily my second most anticipated of 2011 to this point (Fleet Foxes taking the first spot). The band has released a couple of tracks from it already, and then they put out this cover of a 1972 funk-jam from British rockers Hard Stuff after recording it at their friend’s studio in Austin. Here’s the band’s description why they chose this track:
When deciding what we should record, we collectively turned toward things that we have recently noticed. Recently we have noticed that many of the behind the scenes type folks that handle the genrefication of musics before they are consumed by consumers, have added the descriptor “jamband” next to other terms that have been applied to our work in the past. A few examples of past descriptors employed by entertainment industry flavormakers when describing our group include: spazz, jazz, alternative, country, psychedelic, bluesjazz, pop, garage, exercise, post rock, and party. In order to fully integrate this new externally applied genre with the existing White Denim aesthetic, we thought it necessary to record not only a cover, but a cover that doubles as a vaguely funky vamp. With this recording we hope to accomplish three things.
We hope that you will
1. listen to the record titled ‘Bulletproof’ by the 1970’s English band Hard Stuff.
2. listen to this podcast. http://sonicdaydream.blogspot.com/2008/04/hard-stuff-1.html
3. have kind of a slightly minorly but mostly harshed buzz from listening to this jam.
I’ll leave it at that.
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White Denim // Jay Time (Hard Stuff Cover) [mp3]
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We are back into the podcasting after taking an extra week off because I was out of town. In order to make up for that, we’re going to put out another one of these next Saturday, and then we’ll resume our normal schedule of every two weeks.
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tympanocast 005 // April 16, 2011
01. Napoleon – Success
02. Architecture – In the Morning
03. Still Corners – Eyes
04. Papercuts – Do What You Will
05. Therapies Son – Touching Down
06. New Animal – Take Me If You Can
07. unouomedude – Frequency
08. Rona Pano – …You Stole the Laces From My Shoes
09. The Weeknd – High For This
10. White Denim – Anvil Everything
11. Ringo Deathstarr – Imagine Hearts
12. BEACH! – Summertime
13. Nightbox – Pyramid
14. Polarsets – Sunshine Eyes
15. Starfucker – Bury Us Alive
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There is nothing that White Denim does that I think is bad. There’s a certain rickety nature about their songwriting, a kind of jumpy need to work from rock to funk to jazz and back again over the course of an album, sometimes in the span of a four-minute song. This new track, from their May 24th album D, starts off as a kind of straight ahead burner, then switches gears at just under three minutes in to something with a bit more swagger. And in typical White Denim fashion, both sound equally as natural.
As it turns out, “Anvil Everything” is actually the second song the band has put out from the new album, and I just missed or glossed over the first one. The now quartet put out first single “Drug” via RCRD LBL back on March 2nd (when I was in Houston, so I have a good excuse), and both tracks serve as a nice sampler for what’s to come. Their previous effort, 2009′s Fits was one of my favorite albums of that year, so I’m hopeful for big things again. Based on what we’ve heard already, I think we will be.
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White Denim // Anvil Everything [mp3] from the forthcoming D
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![WD [mp3] New White Denim Tony Fatti/Our Get](http://cdn04.cdn.gorillavsbear.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/WD.jpg "[mp3] New White Denim Tony Fatti/Our Get")
White Denim and I are on the same wavelength apparently. I’ve been rediscovering their phenomenal 2009 album Fits over the past few days. (You might have seen me tweeting about it.) And then, unexpectedly, the band dropped a new collection of songs on the world yesterday afternoon entitled Last Day of Summer. And if that weren’t enough, they made it available to the world for free.
Granted, you can get it for free, but if you like what you hear, you can and should donate a few shekels to help them out on their upcoming tour – which starts next month. And while that tour doesn’t find them anywhere close to my part of the US, maybe my donation will generate some goodwill for western New York.
Last Day of Summer, according to the band’s website, is a culling of songs that have been around for a while, but were finally put together while the band puts together their as-yet-untitled third LP. It shows. There are jazzy instrumentals, forays into a dusty Americana sound, and an overall more loose take on the music, which is difficult to envision the band doing since they can and do change gears at a moment’s notice.
Check out the dates that White Denim has lined up over the next month or so over at their MySpace, and download Last Day of Summer in its entirety over at their website. If you’re more of a physical media kind of consumer, make sure to catch the band on tour, since LDoS will be released in a limited version as well at those dates.
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White Denim – Tony Fatti (mp3) from Last Day of Summer
White Denim – Our Get (mp3) from Last Day of Summer
Dave and I are both heading to Portland, OR on Wednesday for a friend’s wedding; I’m staying through the following Thursday and heading up to Seattle with my girlfriend, while Dave is flying home on Sunday (I think.) So, if we aren’t as responsive for a bit, you now know why. Anyway, let’s get back to the music, which is why you’re all here anyway. It’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve done one of these, so if you’re new around here, catch yourself up on my first 118 picks over here.
119. White Denim – Radio Milk How Can You Stand It (mp3) from Fits
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I’ve done my share of heaping praise on White Denim’s 2009 album; it was Number 3 on my personal Best of 2009 list, and I talked about it over at my lone post at Virgin Music. (That will undoubtedly remain that way; I don’t have the time to write more than I already do.) Regardless of how much I talk about it, it doesn’t detract from the fact that the album is incredible.
“Radio Milk How Can You Stand It” is the nonsensical sounding opener, and it builds into everything that the rest of the album is. It works through stops and starts, incorporating widespread influences before devolving into an emphatic sing-along close. It’s frantic and frenetic and everything that a talented band should be – unafraid to experiment with various sounds and textures. This one is a scorching example of how good that type of experimentation can be.
120. Mark Kozelek – Metropol 47 (mp3) from Rock ‘N’ Roll Singer
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On the opposite end of the spectrum from White Denim is the easygoing folk of the former lead singer of Red House Painters, and current lead singer of Sun Kil Moon – Mark Kozelek.
I talked about this track back in October when I was reminded of it, and in that post I remarked that it felt like “weekends around the house.” In addition to that particular sentiment, it feels like blue skies, wide highways and time to kill. With my impending trip west, I’m feeling more like that. There’s something uniquely American about Kozelek’s songs – and I’ll be flying over a vast portion of it to parts I haven’t been to before. I’m excited.
