6.8
Avg Score
7
Opinions
#39,122
All Time
“Jack White does not own a mobile phone. He says he never has and never will, to avoid falling under the “addiction” driven by “competition, voyeurism and jealousy”. He has never known the dizzying rush of a tasty drop on Candy Crush, the maddening bewilderment of 89 unread WhatsApp messages of a group chat attempting to arrange a basic function, the morbid curiosity of a friend’s inebriated karaok”
“Somewhere over the last decade, Jack White lost his way. Music’s Willy Wonka, a man with access to virtually every piece of vintage recording equipment on the planet, had too many ideas of what to do with it all. His solo releases got weirder and less listenable as time went on; he attempted to rap on Boarding House Reach, a record that saw him strip away most of his famed guitar solos, replacing”
“Months before release, The Raconteurs teased their third album, Help Us Stranger, with a YouTube clip. Members Jack White, Brendan Benson and Jack Lawrence are parked in a large car outside their Nashville studio, listening to an early mix of the album, broadcasted to the car stereo via an FM mini-station they’ve set up in the control room (satisfied, they head back indoors to mildly exasperated p”
“After an 11-year hiatus, the first album from Jack White’s other other band floats in weightless, haughty bliss through a perpetual 2008.”
“When the Raconteurs released their debut in 2006, co-founder Jack White was emerging from his imperial phase – the White Stripes would put out their final record the following year. The four-man side project initially seemed like a release valve for White, an outlet for the ideas the self-imposed strictures of the White Stripes had stymied. A decade on, however, and a Raconteurs reunion feels like”
“Bombastic production isn't enough to save Help Us Stranger's often shabby songwriting.”
