White Williams, "Smoke"

White Williams' debut album, Smoke, will be released by Tigerbeat 6 on October 30, 2007. Preceding the release of Smoke, White Williams will tour the U.S. and Canada with Girl Talk and Dan Deacon.

"Nurtured in the arson-prone fatalism of Cleveland's DIY scene, 23-year-old Joe Williams, noise-rock dilettante and White Williams' mastermind, made a name for himself twice touring with Gregg Gillis (Girl Talk), Andrew Strasser, Frank Musarra (Hearts of Darknesses) and Luke Venezia (Drop the Lime). Together, through countless venues of ill-repute, they forced their cartooned audio effluvia in the ears of hapless art-students, transients and skin-heads. Inevitably, Joe was saved by pop music.

Smoke is his self-invented messiah. Recorded in various sublets over two years in Cleveland, Cincinnati, New York, and San Francisco, using a laptop, analog synths and a mutable selection of studio equipment, White Williams' first album is unapologetic pop that flirts with the vacuous nostalgia of the American dream; engaging ambiguous and schizophrenic instruments with impressionistic lyrics, driven by a casually heterosexual backbeat. Polished, familiar and addictive like the sound of sex in a futuristic hospital, Smoke portends a time where energy-drinking teenagers undress each other with night-vision goggles. As an amalgam of adolescent telepathy and mature awareness: White Williams is the soundtrack to our dreams of a lustful and indifferent prom night that lasts forever."  -- Jeffrey Blocksidge

Tour Dates:
Wed. Sept. 12  Toronto, ON @ Phoenix w/ Dan Deacon, Girl Talk
Thu. Sept. 13 Montreal, QC @ La Tulipe w/ Dan Deacon, Girl Talk
Sat.  Sept. 15  New York, NY @ Webster Hall w/ Dan Deacon, Girl Talk
Mon. Sept. 17 Philadelphia, PA @ Starlite w/ Dan Deacon, Girl Talk
Thu. Sept. 20 Charlottesville, VA @ Satellite Ballroom w/ Dan Deacon, Girl Talk
Fri.  Sept. 21 Asheville, NC @ Orange Peel w/ Dan Deacon, Girl Talk
Sat.  Sept. 22 Atlanta, GA @ MJQ Concourse w/ Dan Deacon, Girl Talk
Thu. Sept. 27 San Diego, CA @ Epicentre w/ Dan Deacon, Girl Talk
Fri.  Sept. 28 Los Angeles, CA @ Echoplex w/ Dan Deacon, Girl Talk
Sat.  Sept. 29 San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore Auditorium w/ Dan Deacon, Girl Talk

Smoke Tracklist:
1. Headlines
2. In The Club
3. New Violence
4. Going Down
5. Smoke
6. The Shadow
7. Danger
8. I Want Candy
9. Fleetwood Crack
10. Route to Palm
11. Lice in the Rainbow
Read More