White Rabbits – Fort Nightly
I am hugely late picking this up, but there are no claims to slick professionalism here at Song, by Toad. Fort Nightly by The White Rabbits has been pottering about the blogs for a bit, but I have to admit that it was only recently that the blinding song While We Go Dancing finally hit me. And right between the eyes it was too, once it finally got round to it.
Well needless to say, I rushed straight out and bought the album and have been digging the absolute melons out of it ever since. Ten more When We Go Dancings it is not though, which took me a little while to adjust to, but once I did the beaty, direct drive of this album really got to me. I think the sound is best described as confident and direct, with plenty of grit and growl whilst never forgetting the rhythm and roll that make a great indie album.
Stylistically it’s almost what I’d call an indie rock ‘n’ roll album, liberally laced with all sorts of elements of honkey-tonk, even bits of ska at times, and many other joyous things. There is a bit of grit in there too somewhere, almost a spooky barroom echo in a way, and it brings a welcome shadow of darkness to the atmosphere.
If there’s one stand-out aspect of this album it is the piano, which rattles in an unhinged, macabre way through much of the record. This has the effect of making it sound at once old-fashioned, upbeat and danceable and yet also slightly ghostly. It’s too hard to describe, this, but take my word for it, it’s definitely worth buying.
White Rabbits – While We Go Dancing
White Rabbits – March of the Camels
You are correct. These guys are brilliant.
A kind of U.S. supergrass in my opinion.
(and that’s a big complement)
The Plot has been on loop round my way as have
a few other gems from the album.
I hear they are AMAZING live and gutted i missed
em when they were over here.