We suspected it, but we are now certain: in exactly one week, Place Bell will be seriously shaken up by Jack White’s electric blue rock.
Posted at 9:30 a.m.
his album Fear of the Dawnpresented as the first part of a diptych whose second part will arrive in July, revives the raw character of White Stripes, but in a supersonic sound universe, that is to say stuffed with super saturated compact guitars, stereophonic effects, electronic tweaks and a host of other tricks that sound nothing more or less like laser beams.
Adrenaline visibly on the ceiling, the guitarist and singer scatters. The foundations of this record are rock and blues – a Jack White blues, of course – but what makes it intriguing are all the quirks it brings to it, from the playful nod to the art lyrical, with a progressive spirit. Fear of the Dawn is a theatrical disc, which assumes its extravagances and refuses any form of softness.
Alone at the controls, Jack White sounds as if there were 10 of them in the studio. He finds a way to install grooves that weigh two tons despite broken rhythms, and even to add a good dose of funk in his rock rantings. Fear of the Dawn is not a restful record. And that’s good. There are so many people who use sound effects to create soft and enveloping atmospheres that it is thrilling to hear Jack White rocking machines!
Rock
Fear of the Dawn
Jack White
Third Man Records