White Denim
White Denim is an American rock band from Austin, Texas, United States. Their music is influenced by dub, psychedelic rock, blues, punk rock, progressive rock, soul, jazz, experimental rock with home-based recording, jamming approach, intense looping work and unusual song structures.
About This Event
-based rockers White Denim. The just-below-the-surface significance to 13 as an album title is that I was born on the thirteenth of August. 13 in numerology can signify independence, creativity, and a solid foundation, but inversely is often considered to be unlucky and can signify chaos and misfortune.
13 also happens to be the thirteenth album of White Denims career. Petrallis wide-ranging musical appetites have become more voracious over time. The sounds and textures of 13 are informed by everyone from Scritti Politti to The Gap Band, Terry Reid to King Tubby, Caetano Veloso to John Cale, Stevie Wonder to 80s-era Steve Winwood.
The seed of the project is rooted in the irresistible Chew Nails. Its a straightforward glam-rock tune, says Petralli. My take on the New York Groove, which is itself a take on the Bo Diddley beat.
It has a big ol guitar riff and a singalong chorus. Its familiar territory for me, yet the vocal is perhaps more forward than most things Ive done for the band. The duality of 13 is immediately apparent.
The pungent funk-blues of opener (God Created) Lock And Key begins with a piece of waggish self-mythology On the thirteenth day God created White Denim but soon goes somewhere darker. This is a Beefheart / Sun Ra sort of thing, Petralli explains. I hope that its a somewhat terrifying, startling, and visceral piece for everyone that hears it.
Everything I say in that song is the truth. Its about power, generational cycles of abuse, shame, violence, and survival. The things that we all understand and know and see and push down to get through the day.