White Denim and C Duncan have both released albums on this New Music Friday, have a listen on Live4ever.
White Denim have swiftly followed up last year’s Performance LP with Side Effects, one which Live4ever’s review concluded ‘is a fine addition to a fascinating story‘:
“Long term fans will know that this is White Denim’s world of course and we’re just living in it. The clincher for the rest of us is the sprawling NY Money which consists of seven minutes of motorik beat, but spiralling all around it are celestial melodies and a hazy sunshine ambience inspired by the motion of sometime drinking buddies The War On Drugs.”
“Back down here the notion might cross the listener’s mind to start weighing up comparisons between these songs and anything else in the band’s cannon, as if Petralli and co. have ever made any attempt to reach an understanding with the confines of their past.”
C Duncan, meanwhile, has branched out to work with a much wider variety of producers, engineers and musicians for his third record Health; “For Health the Glaswegian broke with process, put Elbow’s Craig Potter at the controls, hired musicians and entered the studio for the first time,” our review reads. “Unsurprisingly, there are changes.”
“Whether consciously or not, Potter has brought some greater definition; Duncan has confessed to learning as he went at first, repetition being his friend.”
“Here though, there’s a bold use of the new resources, with piano balladry of a grander scale on the finale Care and via Reverie, the latter as ambitious an arrangement as the Scot has ever attempted.”