White Denim have put their pedal to the metal with finishing up their new album Side Effects, announced only five months after their last album Performance landed last August.

Their new album announcement lands with two singles. The first, "Shanalala", helped piece their forthcoming album together, as vocalist James Petralli explains, "Side Effects is built around this tune in some ways. I remained excited about "Shanalala" so I wrote a few tunes that I thought would work with the mood and atmosphere of the track. Steve [Terebecki] got a chuckle out of most of them and wrote great parts, then we staffed the sessions for the songs with musicians that we are inspired by. Then we dubbed and arranged the absolute shit out of them with our partner Jim Vollentine."

The second single, "NY Money", lasts just under seven minutes, and acts as the central pillar for Side Effects. Petralli expands, "The lyrics came first. The first line was originally "The drugs quit smoking, I don’t find it inspiring", which I had written in a notebook after a night of drinking with the War on Drugs guys. They had all recently 'quit’ cigarettes which made me suspect that they were really hanging around me so they could pinch cigs every couple of minutes. I went through two packs in three hours with them. The Neu-influenced production and meandering feel of the back part of the tune is a winking homage to what they’ve been up to for the past few years."

Tracklist:

1. small talk (feeling control)
2. Hallelujah Strike Gold
3. Shanalala
4. NY Money
5. Out of Doors
6. Reversed Mirror
7. So Emotional
8. Head Spinning
9. Introduce Me