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It's fine but forgettable. At times a little rocky and at times a little swingy, I guess, but it very easily just faded into the background and didn't capture my attention at all.

this was way better than i was expecting with 0 clue of this band

I just don't know. I liked some of it, didn't like other parts of it... often in the same song. I think the biggest "crime" of this album is that even though it was weird and all over the place, the one thing it wasn't was memorable. I couldn't tell you what the third song sounded like, and I literally just finished listening to it.

More like D minus. I'm told this is a technical marvel. Maybe that's so, and maybe that's why it's been deemed a "must hear" experience. But you know something? That feat would have been even more impressive if they had made an album that was actually enjoyable to listen to. This is essentially one extremely boring and utterly forgettable 37-minute prog song. But seein' as you boys are from Texas and all, I tell you hwat. I'll give you 2 stars right now if you skip town and I never hear from or about you ever again... which I'm guessing is a foregone conclusion, anyway.

Ég var helvíti sáttur með þessa.

Not a bad album, but not an excellent one either. They sound a bit like a modern interpretation of The Grateful Dead. It's fun and boppy, but nothing sticks. There's no big hooks to bring you back. My Rating: 3.5/5

Really impressive. It went a lot of places and they all sounded good.

I’m once again asking for artists to not have the stupidest name for their album, you should just be able to search for it There’s some pretty fascinating parts of this one; it goes from Grateful Dead cosplay to genuinely interesting prog adjacent sound. There’s absolutely moments in this that give off Pink Floyd vibes which I think is the highest compliment I can give about this one. Variety is actually great and instrumentation is more than passable There’s a lot of down moments in this one; it’s frustrating because you’ll hear a great part of a song and then it’ll transition to something that’s absolutely just nothing. Vocals aren’t anything special in my opinion and honestly felt a little behind the times for a 2011 album I can see why people like it, since it’s genuinely an interesting album, but I think there’s too much fat where I can’t really love it. It’s better than 1001’s favorite trope of just finding some washed up artist and making their newest release one of the 2010’s albums so I’ll take it though

It is if Yes and The Grateful Dead had a baby I just wish there were more hooks in there. I know their other albums got more teeth to them.

My first impression did not last long. This was a fun album to listen to. 21st century prog rock.

Wasn't my favorite i enjoyed the instrumental bits in a few of the songs but overall it was okay

I actually enjoyed this quite a bit. I liked it. But it’s also not something you MUST hear either. Personally it’s a four. Realistically it’s a three.

Have you ever wondered what the Stone Roses would have sounded like if they'd recorded in the late 60's? Here's your answer.

White Denim made this album following a simple recipe for good music. The bass lines, guitars and nice drum fills just work so well together. Of course, the progressive rock influences are there, and the psychedelic parts are great and memorable. Burnished and Back at the Farm make a great pair. The whole album is enjoyable, maybe a couple of songs drag on a bit, but overall a really nice listen.

Hora slår til med dobbel 5er, og sin første 5er på ukjent artist! Dæven dette var bra. Ble ikke helt frelst etter først lytt, men skjedde et eller annet på runde to. Om jeg var i et mer mottakelig humør eller hva det nå var vet jeg ikke. Dødskult var det i hvert fall. Litt blend av Pearl Jam og The Wombats?? Kicker på det meste her, litt ekstra på "Burnished" og "Anvil Everything" og "Bess St".

Heelt greit

Dette var bra på tross av bråk fra flytur. Liker spesielt «Back at the Farm».

Mye bra, men synes den prøver å gjøre for mye med instrumentalene, så blir litt støyete for meg. F. eks. er «Back at the farm» veldig kul, men kunne vært enda bedre med en mer minimalistisk tilnærming. Sterk 3er

I saw these guys at monolith in 2008 or so. I have no recollection of their set. no real impression, the. this album is very, very good. glad I’ve heard it

I only heard this fairly recently, when I was going through the albums not included in the 2006 edition of the list (this was the book I initially bought). It is a brilliant version of a modern prog album. When I first heard it, I immediately listened to it again and now when it came up as the album of the day, I was more than happy to 'rediscover' it again. It is quite nuanced and even though I have heard it a number of times before, there always seems something new to discover. If you have to heard it - please do! (5/5)

This was new for me, and surprisingly fells good.

agradezco esos momentos donde me recordó a vampire weekend, y disfruté bastante los instrumentales 7/10

Middle

really unique stuff - i love this! super groovy, love the instrumentals, especially that flute on this "river to consider"! makes me feel like it's springtime (even though it's not :')). absolutely a 5 - i didn't want the album to end and i love when one surprises me!

I’m sure this album is actually fine but I’ve been really depressed today (on my bday! Unfair) and this didn’t make it better

To me this is an album I’ll have to listen to a few more times because I think it was better the second time I heard it. I’m not crazy about blues rock so there’s a couple songs in there I didn’t like. The last song aptly named A Place to Start was my favorite due to its gorgeous production. Reminded me of something from the 70s.

D starts with a handful of decent trippy tracks with a lot of instrumental stuff, only to turn to that pointless sound with almost whining high-pitched (male) vocals, some roaming motives leading to nowhere etc. The quality of music was fine, but perpaps this is just not within my taste. Did not care much about the majority of songs as I was listening. Fav picks: "It's Him!", "Back at the Farm", "Is and Is and Is" (finally some more decisive vocals in the last track mentioned). The album shows up some country influences I suppose, so neither bad nor excellent.

As always with WD, there's some gold in here, but a lot of it is forgettable.

não combina com nada que eu gosto, nenhuma música me agradou

Enjoyed this!

I had never heard of White Denim, or D before. This was brand new to me, and I found I really liked it.

No tenía ni idea de este combo americano. Me suenan a Vampire weekend (It´s him!). Con una lóngeva y productiva carrera, se me asemejan a The Coral (Street joy) o Spoon en el sentido de que sus discos siempre son de mucha calidad y no se repiten. Back at the farm, podría estar en cualquier disco de blues psicodélico americano de los 60. Is and is and is también, con una fuerza imponente. River to consider explota al final hacia otra dimensión. Gran disco, un descubrimiento.

Better than I expected it to be.

This is like if Jeff Buckley and vampire weekend had a baby and it grew up with prog and funk tendencies. Wonderful and eclectic. This could ascend.

Brilliant find. What an engaging album, just a touch of Texas twang in what I wish more modern rock and roll sounded like. Four and under consideration for promotion to 4.5 to 5.

A modern interpretation of jam 60's psychedelic jam bands. More intense sound, multi-instrumental production that kicks the meandering jams for a tight 3:30 avg length. Inject this into my cochlea (4.5)

Kind of okay, but tiresome

A bizarre album that somehow works. The instrumentals are great, full of restless energy and unexpected turns, and even though the lyrics stay mostly mid, they fit the overall aura well enough. It never feels like it’s trying too hard to make sense, which ends up being part of the charm. The band jumps between funky grooves, sharp guitar lines and looser, almost jam-like sections without losing momentum. There is a playful, slightly unhinged quality running through the record that keeps it interesting. Nothing sits still for long, and that constant motion makes it fun to listen to even when the songs themselves are not especially deep. The production is clear and well balanced. Every instrument has space, the rhythms stay tight, and the whole thing sounds clean without smoothing out the weird edges. That clarity helps the more chaotic moments land instead of turning into a mess. D is an odd but enjoyable record. Lively, well played, and more entertaining than it has any right to be.

Hmmm. 2010er Psych country-rock

Pretentious bullshit. 1/5

(Strong 7/10) Speaking purely from how much I enjoyed this record, it's very good. A few songs didn't wow me as much but it's short and sweet, and the musicianship is pretty stellar. Jazz-trained indie rockers that also draw from psychedelic rock, there's really neat stuff that happens here. Now... My main beef that I wanted to share here on this site is my formulated opinion on the 1001 albums project. I'm only a couple hundred albums in, using the generator mainly to shuffle my listening experience. I also own two editions of the book. The 2016 one and the 2021 one. I foolishly paid 100 dollars for the newest one thinking it would be an overhaul when in reality they only replaced 5 albums with newer ones. So that felt like a scam. My other main gripe is the amount of (or lack thereof in this case) attention that the new millennium gets in comparison to the modern 20th century decades. The 60's through the 90's touch on obviously great and important albums in music history that would be required listening, but then you get a TON of filler. Like I seriously did not need to hear Paul Revere or The Electric Prunes before I died. The fact that so much of those decades are just filled with kitschy one-offs but the 2000's-2010's don't have MADVILLAINY or DEATH GRIPS or KGLW or hell ANY METAL MORE EXTREME THAN MASTER OF PUPPETS is BEWILDERING to me. The total focus on western/euro-centric music is also very disappointing. Like, they do TRY a LITTLE BIT with sprinkling some Hindustani music, Sufi Music, Hispanic and Latin music here and there, but East Asian music is hardly explored at all, African music hardly gets touched on (aside from the stuff that Paul Simon and David Byrne were hyping up), and it just feels like the potential for a book like this to seriously expand one's music taste was squandered (like the Louvin Brothers weren't THAT important were they??). I say all this, because listening to White Denim today made me realize that the mission statement of the author and the editor was largely ignored and this became a collection of personal staff picks with some Western Culturally Important albums sprinkled in. This album is good, but it's not really anything new or boundary pushing or reinventing a worn-out genre. Music from the past 20 years is full of creative and dynamic and inspiring music, and Robert Dimery kinda just glosses over it without really taking it seriously. If the author dared to consider more extreme versions of metal, more electronic music, more underground Rap and Hip Hop, or even PUNK and EMO, you could EASILY fill out the past 20 years to a sizeable chunk that gives it the proper amount of time and dedication it deserves to have. I think if Dimery wants to wait a few more years just to sprinkle a few more albums in and charge his readers 100 more dollars, he should instead start over, cut down the filler, keep it as NECESSARY as POSSIBLE with as much objective picks as you can. For when new music comes out that you feel needs mentioned, just release a new book for like the past ten years titled: "101 more albums from the past decade you must listen to before you die: A supplemental entry by Robert Dimery". Like, idk I think music fans who find this project interesting would probably appreciate that better, or at least I know I would. So yeah, all that to say, this album is good! Just uh.... idk not "sitting on my death bed so glad I heard this album in my lifespan" good.

Think this is until now for me the most unknown album and artist. I really never heard of this band. It was a nice first introduction and their music does more or less fit in my taste profile. They have opened in the past for Wilco, one of my favourite bands. Their music can be described as a jam band I would say with many influences. Southern Rock, Classic Rock, Prog rock, Psychedelic rock, Americana, country and Jazz. It does totally not sound as this if from 2011. If I would need to guess, I would probably said something like 1976. The first song did me think of the Grateful Dead. With "Street Joy" I thought I was listening to Israel Nash. There is a lot of virtuosity in the music with long instrumental parts where all members show off their skills. I can imagine that a live show would be quite exciting. But unfortunately I did not like all tracks evenly Several parts are bit too chaotic and maybe it is just a bit too much. to grasp for just 1 listen. Albumd closer "Keys" is a very nice song. I think this album requires more listens to fully appreciated it. Not sure if this will be a 3 or a 4 when I decide on it tomorrow morning, as I would rate is as 3,5 for now...

I wanted to like this more than I did. There's no doubt that these guys are talented musicians. But there's too much of a jam-band feel here for me...and they're just trying to do too goddamn much. There's some jam-band stuff I do like but this isn't it. Also, the vocal harmonies don't hit for me, either. I bet they're great in concert, I'm sure they have fans that travel around following their tour and trading bootlegs.

Something extra tedious about early aughts psych bands.

meh

"D" is a solid, well-crafted rock record that leans heavily into a late-1960s sound. Its warm production and syncopated instrumentation share a striking kinship with early Santana. 1 "It's Him!" (3/5) 2 "Burnished" (3/5) 3 "At the Farm" (3/5) 4 "Street Joy" (3/5) 5 "Anvil Everything" (3/5) 6 "River to Consider" (3/5) 7 "Drug" (3/5) 8 "Bess St." (3/5) 9 "Is and Is and Is" (3/5) 10 "Keys" (3/5) Total - 30 Average - 3 436/1001 231/436 albums reviewed were new to me.

ending dropped off a bit but overall really funky

Jesus, the rhythm section is so deep in the pocket, they could scratch their own balls.

Never tried the album, have listened repeatedly since.

Bit different, Mellow prog rock. Enjoyable listen

Great fusion of alternative, rock, jazz, and progressive music. Very talented bunch of musicians. Enjoyed even though I have never heard of them before.

p932. 2011. 3 stars. Adequately done Adult Orientated Rock (AOR) that would not be out of place in the late 70s/80s. Let down by a lack of standout tunes and worrying tendency to stray into prog rock wankage. The rule still holds true: if no-one is talking about an album 5+ years after it was released, you don't need to hear it.

Klinkt prima. Heeft af en toe wat weg van Di-rect, maar vaak net iets meer rommeliger/harder.

Dan Auerbach sounding ass, cool album

What a surprise. I will definitely dig into this artist more.

A bit all over the place but pretty good over all.

I wanted to like this more, but it never quite scratched the itch.

Goddamn this is really fucking good

This was cool and honestly if more jam was like this I could dig some of it more.

2,5/5 just another indie rock album nothing special granted it came out a long time ago so it may have been special at its time of release but no reason to listen to it in 2026

This album didn't stand out to me in any way.. nothing to really critique, but nothing to praise

I like this but it's a bit over-decorated for me.

Lame.

Favorite Track: Street Joy

Backing band audition.

I still wish to read this as Dwhite Denim. Fun album that isn't quite my normal style? It's so close though. It's what I wish the Vines sounded like. That whole 2005-2015 alt rock thing that bothers me vocally? Somehow this steps around that. Not quite a four but I feel a touch guilty?

Not for me

I'm not really into 70s prog rock, turns out I'm not really into 2010s prog rock either. Part of me does appreciate how batshit all over the place some of these tracks are, fuck you here's another flute solo! It does get an extra point for being kept to a reasonable length and there are no pretentious 10 minute wank fests like some prog albums. 2.75* rounded up to 3*

A nice surprise, this. My expectations were low going in, but I enjoyed it a lot

Turned into Bombay Bicycle Club half way through.

3.5

right up my alley - I will definitely listen again

I liked it a lot, but didnt really stick out. I want to listen to more of them tho

ME encantooo, todo el dico. y despues escuche nuevas cosas del artista y tambien.

It was rhythmically interesting, with a high level of musicianship, but it was melodically lacking and didn’t really have much of an impact on me.

Funny how this does not seem to have appeared on any best of 2011 lists yet appears here. It’s fine I guess, but I didn’t find anything here that made me want to grab it again any time soon particularly. The psychedelic influences are obviously prevalent but something that Tame Impala has done better and found more traction in the cultural zeitgeist than this.

Fun and easy listen. Definitely enjoyed it. When thinking about the entirety of recorded music, I do wonder how this one made it to the 1000+ short list.

This is a band from Texas which I never heard of until now. The music here easily could be from the 1960s or 1970s. The album is well constructed and the sound quality is good. There’s a lot of variety: rock/hard rock, Caribbean, country. One negative: most of the lyrics are beyond my comprehension - to me, they are a compilation of random sentences. Overall much better than expected.

What "D" hell is this? I predict I will hate it. I bet more than half of this album's total listens come from this very project. I don't like what's happening with that dog-goat(horse?) hybrid. OK, turns out.... this wasn't that bad. Kinda generic on a first listen (Wilco-esque?) but not offensive in any way, and not overlong. The lyrics aren't anything special but the sound is more "modern indie rock" than "southern rock" to me. Maybe in another world if it were on the rock countdown I would have good feelings about it instead of thinking "fine, but why is this here?". Alas... we are in the world that we are in.

Well composed album. Like Phish but more polished and organized.

Usually I get a decent idea of what I’m getting in to by reading the wiki and some random reviews, but this really defied my expectations. This is a jam band but on adderall instead of LSD. All jam guys tend to be really talented technically, but these guys show it off a lot more than others. The grooves and endless loops are mostly missing, or are in such complex time that you can’t just sway to it. The drummer is insanely good. He keeps time by being 6 steps ahead of everyone else, and it somehow collapses in to a beat every time. The song structures are only really jarring a couple of times, mostly when the the drummer, again, abruptly switches things up and the others either do it with him or shortly after. That said, they do have 1 or 2 clunky transitions, but they are never to a boring beat. I don’t understand how anyone can call this boring, but I do wish the bass tone would change up from the fuzzy one and the singer would enunciate a little more. Other than that, I really enjoyed this.

3.5 Really liked some songs (street joy, keys). Was meh on others

Meh. Like really meh.

So creative and interesting. Would have never discovered it otherwise

candy in my ears

01) It's Him! - 6,5 02) Burnished - 6,0 03) At the Farm - 6,0 04) Street Joy - 7,0 05) Anvil Everything - 6,0 06) River to Consider - 6,0 07) Drug - 5,5 08) Bess St. - 5,5 09) Is and Is and Is - 6,5 10) Keys - 6,5 TOTAL: 6,15 (62/100) Current ranking: 770/1033

texas boys

A nice change of pace! Instead of a boring British indie rock album with zero cultural significance, it’s a boring AMERICAN indie rock album with zero cultural significance.

If I had been aware of this when it came out I probably wouldn’t have shut up about it.

It sounds pretty dated and boring, I feel like some albums from the 70s were more interesting... I liked Street Joy and his voice was charming.

Math rock. Alright. Not my favorite

Good album, good listen

It was fine

(6.4)

7,50/10 Buen album, divertido. Empieza bien arriba y después se va estabilizando, pero mantiene esa buena energía

It's Him! - 4/5 Burnished - 3.5/5 At the Farm - 4/5 Street Joy - 3.5/5 Anvil Everything - 4/5 River to Consider - 3.5/5 Drug - 4/5 Bess St. - 4/5 Is and Is and Is - 3.5/5 Keys - 3/5 I had low expectations for these guys going into it, but I was pleasantly surprised. It's a decent indie rock/neo-psychedelia with a pinch of jaminess sprinkled in that makes it interesting. Overall: 4/5 Favorites: At the Farm, Anvil Everything

Perfectly cromulent psych rock album from that same weird revival wave of the early 2010s as Foxygen, that agreeable sound that followed the freaky weirdo stuff of the 2000s (Animal Collective et al.) and presaged the more adventurous revivalists of the decade (Tame Impala, King Gizzard, etc.). It’s all very fun and fine and there are even some creative chord changes in there! Yet I’m definitely left wanting a little more edge, maybe some crunch or some strange vocals or more colorful soundscapes. Represents an interesting transitional phase, yet I’m not quite sure why it made the book.

It wasnt bad at all, enjoyed it for the most part, guitar and drums were really good on some tracks. Band is a new one on me, I dont know that is a listen before I die but good album just the same

Decent album. Nice and easy to listen to. Very 70s, very modern. Cool, but the more rock tracks were better than the folky bits. Loved the end part of Is and Is and Is. Great addition to this list from the last 20 years!

Wasn’t expecting much, pleasantly surprised. Yeah it sounds like a lot of other bands, but mote influenced than carbon copy kind of way. Definitely return to. 4 Star