event White Denim + Brazos
White Denim and Brazos
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Wed Nov 4
9 pm
White Denim + Brazos at 400 Bar
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. Tourmates Brazos open with surprisingly intimate indie epics.
400 Bar 400 Cedar Ave S, Twin Cities, MN
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. Tourmates Brazos open with surprisingly intimate indie epics.
Updated 06/28/2011
