I first heard White Rabbits debut LP Fort Nightly while driving through the city on a freezing night. This was the perfect setting to hear he record; dark, frigid, grey, and focused much like the songs themselves. The story goes like this: six kids from Missouri get bored of living in Missouri, move to Brooklyn, rent a mini-warehouse sized loft and live, practice, eat, & sleep there….all six of them. Intense, eh?
Perhaps proximity is to credit for the bands air-tight rhythms, perfect tones, and liquid bass lines, or maybe they just all happen to be six naturally awesome musicians, but whatever the case I’m thankful for them getting together.
Fort Nightly starts out with an intensely strummed wall of minor chord electric guitars, followed by a pounding drum line, a latin-flavored piano-bass line, and a thick fog of shakers, for the next forty minutes your ears are treated to intense and intensely danceable dark Indie Rock which hearkens The Walkmen, Cursive, & Wolf Parade simultaneously. You’d be a fool to miss out.
[mp3] White Rabbits – The Plot
This is great, like really really great.
awesome album. I love ‘Dinner Party’