Divine Fits
Album Title: A Thing Called Divine Fits
Record Label: Merge Records
Review by John Noyd
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A perfect combination of breathless anxiety and bittersweet desire propels the catchy efforts of Spoon’s Britt Daniel, Wolf Parade’s Dan Boeckner and New Bomb Turk’s Sam Brown; elevating hungry impatience into tasty time-bombs whose voodoo beats, New Wave bleeps and stripped-down treats bring ecstatic release to pent-up dreams. Framed in casually cagey cool, “Thing,” succeeds when it seems to try the least, an enviable chemistry of laissez-faire despair built from unobtrusive indie-rock maneuvers. A band that obviously enjoys doing what it does, Divine Fits’ resistance to industry hype makes them all that more worthy of genuine adoration, shrugging off the super-group label and getting down to the business of condensing life’s multifaceted appetites into short, sharp, hook-filled joy-rides. DF plays Madison’s Majestic Theater April 3rd.
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