Name: Performance
Brand: White Denim

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

CD-SLANG-50154

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Colour

Colour details

Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Digipack.

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2018-08-24

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Redeye

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

4250506829391

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

LP-SLANG-50154

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Includes Download Code.

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4250506829407

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

White Denim

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

City Slang

IDLES - Joy as an Act of Resistance

<a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/music/idles-joy-as-an-act-of-resistance">Rough Trade Exclusive Orange Vinyl with Bonus CD</a>

Bristol's finest Kings of exquisitely noisy post-punk have plenty of targets in their cross-hairs and they aren't afraid to pull the trigger. Their second album in so many years is lead-man Joe Talbot's sharp take on modern Britain, tackling everything from nationalism to feminism, homophobia to xenophobia, mental health to inherent wealth and toxic masculinity to toxic drugs. But politics and social-commentary is only one facet to IDLES. Their rowdy tunes of hollering and gut-wrenching searing viscerality crowd the speakers for dancefloor decimating space. Building from an ominous growl to a full on howl of exuberant explosively emotive power, this is a finely honed selection of powerful anthems on full tilt.

The Bristolians Joe Talbot, Mark Bowen, Lee Kieran, Adam Devonshire and Jon Beavis employ Space to produce and duo Adam Greenspan and Nick Launay to mix (Arcade Fire/Kate Bush/Yeah Yeah Yeahs).

An age-defining post-Brexit album that cements IDLES as one of the most important bands around. It is recommended listening for everyone in Britain right now, but especially for fans of political post-punk bands Gang of Four, The Fall and Shame, noise rockers Pissed Jeans and Future of the Left as well as anyone who voted remain.

2. White Denim - <a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/music/white-denim-performance">Performance</a>

3. Olafur Arnalds - <a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/music/olafur-arnalds-re-member">re:member</a>

4. Mitski - <a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/music/mitski-be-the-cowboy">Be The Cowboy</a>

5. Nothing - <a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/music/nothing-dance-on-the-blacktop">Dance on the Blacktop</a>

6. Anna Calvi - <a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/music/anna-calvi-hunter">Hunter</a>

7. Wild Nothing - <a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/music/wild-nothing-indigo">Indigo</a>

8. Tunng - <a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/music/tunng-songs-you-make-at-night">Songs You Make At Night</a>

9. Our Girl -<a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/music/our-girl-stranger-today"> Stranger Today</a>

10. Her's - <a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/music/her-s-invitation-to-her-s">Invitation to Her's</a>

Albums of the Month - September 2018

Albums of the Year 2018

Exclusives

White Denim, the Austin garage punk, soul, psychedelia, prog, jazz and blues quartet have long pulled hard at the parameters of rock and roll, and they're back on Rough Trade Exclusive 140 Gram White Colored LP, Indie Exclusive Clear Colored LP, Standard LP and CD.

White Denim are back - regenerated and resolute. The Austin quartet have long pulled hard at the parameters of rock and roll, admitting garage punk, soul, psychedelia, prog, jazz and blues while holding onto its vital goodtime core. Their up-tempo drive has produced a body of work defined as much by stellar musicianship as off-the-chain exhilaration. Energy and adventurism have always been paramount. Here are nine songs with clarity and renewed purpose as well as a truckload of attitude. A new studio, new collaborators, and new techniques for writing and recording influenced the elastic possibility and liberation felt throughout. Theirs is music that aims for the whole body, while equally satisfying the mind. While it has morphed, expanded, and even burst apart, White Denim’s sincere, human drive and ability to spark true exhilaration have been unerring constants of the band’s existence. Ever progressing, never content to camp out on a plateau of their creative accomplishments, there is no other band quite like White Denim – unique in talent and legendarily potent as a live band, they are quite simply a very special band.

LP+ - Rough Trade Exclusive. 500 Copies on 140 Gram White Colored LP. Includes Download Code.

LP+ - Indie Exclusive Clear Colored LP. Includes Download Code.

LP - Standard LP. Includes Download Code.