REVIEW: Jack White – Frozen Charlotte

 Jack White recently released his seventh solo album, Frozen Charlotte, via Third Man Records.  The new album comes hot on the heels of touring for his excellent sixth album, No Name, and the 13 new songs capture that frenzied live energy and show a band in complete lockstep with each other.  Jack is joined by longtime collaborators, bassist Dominic Davis, keyboardist Bobby Emmett and drummer Patrick Keeler.  Together they have created some of the best blues-soaked garage-rock White has created to date. 

The album opens with the punchy first single, “G.O.D. And The Broken Ribs”, a spiritual and musical cousin to the standout No Name track, “Archbishop Harold Holmes” with barking Biblical imagery and blazing guitar solos.  Jack and company conjure heavy, Led Zeppelin-like pomp alongside an off-kilter rhythm on “There’s Nobody There”, another standout moment.    

Other moments of greatness include the massive, arena-sized riff machine that is “You’ll Never Fix Me” and the scathingly political single, “Dollar Bill” where the vocal vitriol matches the intensity of the warped blues rock riffs and wild solos.  The album closes out with the recently released single, “Neighbors Blues” with its sludge-thick and growling organs and head-nodding rhythm.   

With his latest release, Jack White remains the master of chosen instrument and a driving force in the music scene.    

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