Some things are just difficult to label. Example: the Austin, Texas trio White Denim's latest release Fits. While only running 30-odd minutes, the album tears thru so many different styles, genres, studio tricks, and effects that the listener is bombarded by the sound they have crafted. However, that is not to say it comes off as overwhelming. By maintaining a (very, very loose) song structure, the tracks (and all that has been put into them) have an odd kind of coherency. Not everything found on Fits is chaotic; "I'd Have It Just the Way We Were" is a great song (in the traditional sense) with a perfect summer vibe and the album concludes melodically with "Syncn." Yet these are just two of the album's twelve tracks. Elsewhere you find swirling, psychedelic guitars coupled with R & B/soul-ish basslines (the upbeat yet soothing "I Start to Run") or a punk/blues inspired number complete with lyrics in Spanish ("El Hard Attack DCWYW"). But of all the genres touched upon during the album's playing time, the one constant underlying genre that White Denim seems most comfortable falling into is psychedelic rock (ie. see, "Mirrored and Reverse"). However, they never seem to settle into that vibe for long as these three dudes seem to suffer from an incredibly short attention span.
3.3/5.0
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