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Related: About this forumJack White: No Name review - terrific surprise album is his most White Stripes-esque solo release
from:The Guardian (London)
https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/jul/22/jack-white-no-name-review-terrific-surprise-album-is-his-most-white-stripes-esque-solo-release
"Customers at Jack Whites Third Man Records shops in London, Nashville and Detroit received a free gift with their purchases on Friday a white-label vinyl album with a generic sleeve, titled no name. The record was not the work of the Chicago rapper, but rather a surprise release from White himself, available only to those lucky customers on that day. As yet, little information has surfaced about the album, but the Third Man Instagram account instructed owners to Rip it, and a number have duly distributed it across the internet so fans can hear this elusive music after only a little net-based detective work. (This guerilla release strategy calls to mind Sault releasing five albums of new material as a download in 2022, or Cindy Lees acclaimed triple album Diamond Jubilee, which they released this March and is only available as a free download from a Geocities website or as an ad-free YouTube stream).
Why White chose to let his sixth solo album slip out in such a manner is anyones guess, but the man whos done more than any other modern artist to revive record-collecting has form for such playfulness he even went as far as to hide the 100 copies of the second single by side-project the Upholsterers within furniture reupholstered by bandmate Brian Muldoon, with whom White served an upholstery apprenticeship in his youth (only two copies have as yet been discovered). No Name will please both extremes of Jack White fandom: the diehard completists get another super-rare holy grail for their Discogs wantlists, while the fans who simply dig the music get 13 new songs they dont even need to subscribe to streaming services to hear.
Whether via vinyl or dodgy MP3, every Jack White fan should search No Name out. Its more off-the-cuff than much of Whites solo work less of a curates egg than 2018s occasionally inspired, occasionally bewildering Boarding House Reach, less slick and produced than 2022s gonzo rock record Fear of the Dawn, more alive than its muted, folky twin Entering Heaven Alive."
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Diamond_Dog
(33,624 posts)Caught him 10 years ago on that Lazaretto tour. Had to look it up, hard to believe it was that long ago.