Blunderbuss
Year: 2012
Format: Digital
Grade: B
Blunderbuss amounts to Jack White's first solo and first full-length, post-White Stripes effort.
The problem is that's easy to miss for a man whose mere involvement in two other bands, The Raconteurs and The Dead Weather, earned them the distinction of being "Jack White Music."
If solo records are when the artist bares all and shows us who he or she really is, we already know White. He picks an instrument or a certain feel and rides it. See the marimba and The White Stripes' Get Behind Me Satan for proof.
White feels enamored with instruments with keys here, letting them add touches to many or even steer a few tracks entirely. "Love Interruption" opens with a keyboard lick to do Dusty Springfield's "Son of a Preacher Man" proud; "Hypocritical Kiss" stumbles in with a piano flourish.
We're not devoid of familiar White rave ups. "Sixteen Saltines" could be a Stripes leftover and "I'm Shakin' " has a boogie one could see The Raconteurs tackle.
Blunderbuss falls under the umbrella of "Jack White Music," something not earthshatteringly different than we've heard before from him, but, like such efforts, worthy of a listen.
Tomorrow's entry: Spiritualized, Sweet Heart Sweet Light
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