White Denim announce new album & UK tour
After last weekâs celebrated news of their 2013 return, White Denim release fuller album details for Corsicana Lemonade due out in the UK on 4 November via Downtown. Jeff Tweedy produced two tracks; âDistant Relative Saluteâ and âA Place to Startâ.
White Denim tour the US with Tame Impala this October before hitting the UK for a full tour in November. Full UK dates below.
Check new track âPretty Greenâ here: https://soundcloud.com/whitedenim/pretty-green/s-oDIpr
Album trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOcWeg5PgWo&feature=youtu.be
Artist: White Denim
Title: Corsicana Lemonade album
Release Date: 4 November 2013
Label: Downtown
Formats: Vinyl (and CD)/ Digital & CD
Cat Number: DWT70368 Vinyl & DWT70367 CD
Links: www.whitedenimmusic
They say the human body is DNA-programmed to renew itself every seven years. In which case, White Denimâs now legendary, heart-attack musical timing has accelerated their own development â and then some. Five years on from their twisted translation of the garage-rock aesthetic via Workout Holiday, new album Corsicana Lemonade announces itself less noisily and demandingly, while commanding just as much attention.
If their UK debut was the sound of a way-cool keg party, then as singer-songwriter and guitarist James Petralli sees it, their latest is âa barbeque record, essentiallyâ. Here, then, are summery grooves with a country-funk/boogie-soul bent (âCome Backâ, âA Place To Startâ), classic pop-rock moves from the â70s (âCheer Up Blues Endingâ, âAt Night In Dreamsâ) and riff-centric, dirty blues (âLet It Feel Good (My Eagles)â, âPretty Greenâ). White Denimâs frenetic workouts still feature â after all, this is the band that have always boasted serious chops â but theyâre far less extended and frequent, designed to complement the newfound laid-back ease, rather than hog the spotlight.
Petralli concedes that the bandâs aim was to pull back from the complex and considered song structures that took their cues from prog and jazz, and instead make a record that was closer to the White Denim live experience. In other words, tap into the quartetâs holy-rolling momentum and exhilarating, in-the-moment energy. âInitially, we did start by recording a bunch of rockist numbers, but we got kind of fatigued with it. I think we felt that we wanted to say something else, and our ears got tired of hearing really aggressive music and trying to work it into something.
âAbout eight months after D came out, we realised we didnât want to play triplets on everything. We didnât want to make it so difficult for ourselves and, possibly too, our audience. So we talked about scaling back a little bit, by featuring the songs more. We really just wanted to say something new. The biggest thing was to set up and play together in a room, to try and get the sound of the band playing live together.
With that in mind, Petralli, Austin Jenkins (guitar), Steve Terebecki (bass) and Joshua Block (drums) took up a longstanding invitation. In January of 2012 theyâd toured with Wilco and afterward, Jeff Tweedy joked â or so they thought â that someday they should record together at the bandâs Loft Studio. Petralli remembers thinking it was a courtesy comment, but then this year Tweedy called to say that he had a five-day window, and wanted White Denim to go in and cut some tracks. So in late March of 2013, Petralli wrote a couple of songs at short notice and they headed to Chicago, which is where the all-important loosening up process began.
Only two album tracks came out of that session â âDistant Relative Saluteâ and âA Place to Startâ â but the experience of playing live in the studio as an ensemble was crucial. Explains Petralli: âWe spent a day apiece on those two songs and then the last three days, we just tried out every instrument we could get our hands on and laid out these kind of krautrock vamps. That studio is basically a museum; they have pretty much any instrument you could think of, so we just threw everything at it. Jeff was really adamant that we play live, so there was a lot of emphasis on the performances from the four of us being definitive. The spirit was to not have any studio fixing. When I listen to the new record now, it sounds like us learning to play that music, which is cool. To capture that freshness and thatâŚuncertain certainty.â
The Chicago experience galvanised the fourâs initial determination to make a different kind of White Denim record, and it took them just two months. When they went back to Austin, they rented a house on a cliff overlooking Lake Travis and hired a team who outfitted it as a studio in four days. âWe were actually on the porch, trying to write the songs while they were building the studio,â Petralli remembers, âand by the time we got in there, we had enough material to start the record. Both Josh and Austin had moved to Dallas in 2012, so they lived there for five weeks. When we first got into the house, we were in awe of the view because it was just all windows, but when we went in to start working, theyâd boarded them all up for soundproofing. Josh and Austin had this weird psychosis of living in a house with no natural light. Theyâd be yelling that there was a beautiful view beyond the sound blanket!â
Local producer and âtone guruâ Jim Vollentine was in the mix, as was his collection of vintage radio broadcast gear, which lends the record warmth and textured intimacy. âHeâs been salvaging it from yard sales for the past 20 years,â Petralli reveals. âWe had a pretty nice mixture of â70s hi-fi equipment and really early tube equipment from the â40s and â50s.â
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Particulars of process and sonics werenât the only features of the Corsicana Lemonade picture; recent listening habits and changes in personal circumstance also played their part. Petralli, who became a father for the first time in January says that over the past year or two, the band had been thinking a lot about family âand the preservation of [our] personal lives. We decided that we wanted to talk about relationships and family, so with those kinds of things in the air, it was pretty easy for me to tap that lyrically. Plus, weâd all been listening to a lot of the country music and pop weâd grown up with â stuff like Waylon Jennings and the masterful Townes Van Zandt, but also lesser sung artists like Jim Ford and the guys who played in the Nashville band Barefoot Jerry â they themselves didnât really write a lot of great songs, but their music felt really good and it was comfortable and fun. More groove-oriented country was almost a nostalgic thing that we were connecting with.â
If the spirits of Little Feat and the Allman Brothers still hover in the wings, then Badfinger, Stevie Wonder and Glen Campbell have also made their mark, as has fellow Texan, Steve Miller, particularly on the title track. Itâs both a light-hearted homage to some of the states non-descript suburbs and small towns (Abilene, Lucas, Nacogdoches and Waxahachie all get a shout-out) and an update of the classic country road song. âHeâs one step away from Jimmy Buffet, for a lot of people,â Petralli concedes of Miller, âbut he did make a couple of great records. Sailor is pretty cool, and he was part of the whole San Francisco, late-â60s psychedelic thing. On D we got a lot of those comparisons â I guess itâs just inherent. We all do it, but none of us really wants to own up to listening to the Steve Miller Band!â
But Corsicana Lemonade has nothing whatsoever to do with the wrong-headed concept of âguilty pleasuresâ. Its pleasures are honest, immediate and generous spirited, its sound that of a band somehow all the more settled for having made a change. It seems that White Denim took their own advice, offered on the grungily twanginâ and heavily reverbed âLet It Feel Good (My Eagles)â: âIf it feels good, just let it feel good to ya.â Damned hard to argue with that
White Denim UK dates:
Sun 17 November Brighton The Haunt http://www.seetickets.com
Mon 18 November Bristol Fleece & Firkin www.gigsandtours.com
Tues 19 November Manchester Gorilla http://www.gigsandtours.com/tour/white-denim
Wed 20 November London Village Underground http://www.gigsandtours.com/tour/white-denim
Sun 24 November Glasgow Broadcast http://www.pclpresents.com
Praise for D –
âWD are one of the best live bands you will ever see if you live to be a million. Thatâs not excitable hyperbole, merely a bald statement of undeniable factâ Time Out
âIs there nothing they canât do?â 5/5 The Independent
âTheir most thrillingly off-kilter record to dateâ 4/5 Mojo
âAnother joyous rampage through rockâs dusty atticâ 4/5 Q
â..exciting, stimulating, quite brilliant albumâ Uncut
âWhite Denim have never been less than terrificâ NME
âD is for daring and delightfulâ 4.5/5 The Sun
âTheir locker of sound is truly bottomlessâ 4.5/5 The Fly
âThis is uplifting music to lose yourself inâ 4/5 The Times
âTremendousâ 4/5 Daily Mirror
âThrillingâ The Observer
âThere are proper songs here that rock, swing and form a transcendental wholeâ
Indie on SundayÂ
âD gets an A from usâ Guardian Guide
âAn audacious, adventurous, unclassifiable fourth albumâ 8/10 Clash
âWhite Denim still have an urgency to their music â and itâs for this reason that music fans will be treating this more like an event than a releaseâ 4/5 Artrocker