Now that Meg White is busy thinking table decorations and wedding dresses (here’s an idea… go with something white with a little red and black in it), Jack White is exorcising his demons. From behind the drum kit this time around and with a little help from Alison Mosshart (The Kills), Jack Lawrence (The Raconteurs) and Dean Fertita (Queens Of The Stone Age).
Together they crank out a dozen dirty blues cuts that remind of early Nick Cave or very recent Nick Cave if you’re referring Grinderman. It all reads away like something that should by all means sound amazing. And at times it does. The funky “Treat Me Like Your Mother” is one of the absolute highlights on here if you ask me as is the Dylan cover of “New Pony”. Alison moans as if the vibrations coming off the bass drum are tickling her private parts and there’s a couple of very cool riffs that rear their ugly heads here and there. Yet overall “Horehound” sounds as if they stretched every little idea into an entire song and recorded the whole thing in just a couple of weeks. Oh wait, they actually did that. Maybe invest a little more time in the whole thing next time and be a wee bit more selective?
Score: 6.5 out of 10
http://www.thirdmanrecords.com
http://www.thedeadweather.com
No comments:
Post a Comment