event White Denim
Also Playing: Brazos
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Fri Nov 6
9 pm
White Denim and Brazos at Lincoln Hall
For a band that raced to catch up with its own runaway reputation, White Denim is surprisingly headstrong. Its new sophomore album, Fits, could have been another fixed-gear grind through the same slightly punky, sort of funky blues of the band’s breakout debut, Exposion. Instead, it’s a heady brew that makes room for neck-snapping prog-metal time-shifts, no-wave saxophone bleats, desert-bleached psychedelia, organ-driven soul jams, and even strummy freak-folk along the way to upending every expectation. Somehow the trio keeps these anxious Fits from becoming full-blown epilepsy, reined in by the ever-expanding and collapsing interplay of its rhythm section and James Petralli’s similarly elastic yowl. Future tourmates Brazos open this CD-release show with surprisingly intimate indie epics.
Lincoln Hall 2424 N. Lincoln Ave., Chicago, IL
For a band that raced to catch up with its own runaway reputation, White Denim is surprisingly headstrong. Its new sophomore album, Fits, could have been another fixed-gear grind through the same slightly punky, sort of funky blues of the band’s breakout debut, Exposion. Instead, it’s a heady brew that makes room for neck-snapping prog-metal time-shifts, no-wave saxophone bleats, desert-bleached psychedelia, organ-driven soul jams, and even strummy freak-folk along the way to upending every expectation. Somehow the trio keeps these anxious Fits from becoming full-blown epilepsy, reined in by the ever-expanding and collapsing interplay of its rhythm section and James Petralli’s similarly elastic yowl. Future tourmates Brazos open this CD-release show with surprisingly intimate indie epics.
Updated 06/28/2011
