#2777 White Denim - Stiff

I saw White Denim at a festival and they were a great time, but strangely exhausting in their relentless persistence. Their latest album reminds me of that experience: they play medium-fast and medium-slow 4-minute songs, all vaguely danceable, with slightly demanding complexities -- but without any real message, or any sense of the experience they're creating. Together the songs are detached, numbing, like an otherwise good book where all the sentences are the same length 3/5