★★★★★
There's a handful of cities vying for the title of best American music scene these days and the debate can be fierce. Such an honor depends on several factors, mainly the quantity and quality of live shows taking place, as well as the quality of venues for staging these shows. Then there's the overall quality of life and the caliber of local bands coming out of a given scene...
- www.popmatters.com
2014-03-07
★★★★★
It's kind of amazing how much White Denim has changed over the years, despite the fact that they continue to constantly do the same thing: make damn good rock music. Back when 2009's Fits came out, the band, who already released numerous releases to increasing fanfare, rode their never-ending blog buzz to a respectable full-length that felt patched-together from wildly disparate elements, ready to fall apart any point but kept alive by their dynamic energy, surprising songwriting, and genuine...
- www.popmatters.com
2014-01-07
★★★★★
The Texans continue their radical evolution with a kaleidoscopic concept album... Rarely has a band or artist sprung so adeptly between genres, and so quickly, as White Denim. Offhand I can only think of The Beatles and Tim Buckley as comparably questing spirits blessed with the ability to realise so many different ideas with such facility in such a short space of time...
- www.uncut.co.uk
2013-12-20
★★★★★
Tweet Put a Dime in Your Pocket, Relax Hailing from Austin, White Denim have a tough time fitting into one genre. The foursome have the versatility to contain elements of prog-rock, Southern rock, jazz, blues and psychedelic rock into their songs. For their sixth studio album, produced by Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, White Denim steer closest to Southern rock during the ten tracks on Corsicana Lemonade...
- www.mxdwn.com
2013-11-28
★★★★★
Seven years of freewheeling at full tilt would leave most bands a burned-out wreck, but White Denim's penchant for relentless garage rock and twisted guitar chops seems to have slowed on this sixth LP. Less noise, less commotion, and less frenetic, those mind-bendingly dexterous guitar lines are still working, as they do on the happy chug of tracks like 'At Night In Dreams' and the digit-wrangling 'Come Back'. But they feel smoother, tempered even...
- www.clashmusic.com
2013-11-22
★★★★★
?????????? There's a lot going on throughout the 38-minutes that comprise Corsicana Lemonade, White Denim's sixth LP, and third since expanding to a quartet with the addition of guitarist Austin Jenkins. The Austin, Texas-based band has long specialized in chaotic and harried jams that burst forth with snippets of kinetic energy. Where one song stops and another begins is often unclear, resulting in long, free-form propulsions of sound...
- www.glidemagazine.com
2013-11-19
★★★★★
Listening to an album from Austin guitar loop enthusiast foursome White Denim can be an exhausting experience. As inventive as they are in drawing influences from blues, punk, psychedelic rock and soul, their ideas and, subsequently, their music can be all over the place, and with so many factors at hand, they often have to hit just the right combination of notes for the music to succeed...
- www.musicomh.com
2013-11-12
★★★★★
White Denim
'Corsicana Lemonade' (Downtown)
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By JJ Dunning
05 Nov 2013
It's not cool to be good at your instruments. So far, White Denim have spent three albums grappling with this dilemma...
- mamacolive.com
2013-11-08
★★★★★
White Denim borrow from the same pool of Southern rock, soul, prog-rock and jazz as the average jamband, but they've avoided that descriptor with their stylistic jumpiness and whiplash-inducing rhythmic turns. While they may have somewhat erratically tossed around a greater assortment of tones and genres in the past, Corsicana Lemonade finds White Denim hitting their stride with a focused, potent batch awash in down-South sunshine and lip-puckering fuzz...
- www.relix.com
2013-11-08