LIVE: WHITE DENIM

A tie-dye top wearing bassist, a keyboardist with hair that’s almost as long as the 2-hour set, a singer who's facial expressions are so extreme it's as if the music has demonised the poor lad, and a drummer who’s seemingly been picked out of a college chemistry class. They ain’t the smoothest, coolest looking bunch, but their tunes certainly make up for their lack of style. Contemporary jazz, blues, Afropop, punk, hell anything that has been deemed critically cool since the birth of music is infused to generate a special sound straight from the deep south, America’s music hub, Austin, Texas. What they lack in the geek-chic performance abilities of say a Ben Gibbard or Matt Berninger, White Denim certainly make up for in their rousing instrumentals, relentless pace and worldly influences.