When I first heard the name White Denim, I couldn’t help but find them slightly unappealing. Images of Johnny Borrell saving the world, while doubling his record sales, at Live Earth clouded my mind. I was also forced to deal with a long repressed memory of an afternoon spent in Primark with my Sister. These horrendous thoughts soon cleared from my mind when their debut single Let’s Talk About It jumped in my ears. It’s a ridiculously catchy, ballsy garage tune that grabs your attention immediately.
However after listening to Workout Holiday you cant help feel that the record has been rush released to capitalise on the bands, post SXSW, wave of hype. While I’m not suggesting the band should have given us eleven carbon copies of Let’s Talk About It the album suffers from a lack of focus. While their schizophrenic energy creates some flashes of brilliance, such as the frantic Darksided Computer Mouth, it also goes against them. WDA sounds like three guys jamming Sonic Youth riffs rather than an album track. Workout Holiday is by no means a bad album, just one that could have benefited with some more stringent quality control.
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