Clearly their early records are more enjoyable than the latest ones; more spontaneous, rawer, rougher on the edges, a bit more all over the place. I was never really into the garage revival, but this is good shit nonetheless.
Clearly their early records are more enjoyable than the latest ones; more spontaneous, rawer, rougher on the edges, a bit more all over the place. I was never really into the garage revival, but this is good shit nonetheless.
You might think that cutting back a band to just guitar, drums and vocals (and a smidge of piano) would be limiting, but The White Stripes demonstrate a variety of different styles and sounds on this album, starting with mostly grungy garage rock and touching on acoustic folk, country and punk to various degrees. I think I might have avoided this at the time, thinking it was style over substance (and the pretence of being siblings was a bit creepy), but this is solid stuff. The only thing I’d take issue with is the lyrical content of some of Jack White’s lyrics which come over as a bit whiney and ‘but I’m a nice guy, why don’t women like me?’. I’m giving it another listen though, which should tell you something.