Jack White - No Name - Import CD

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Jack White: "No Name," the latest album in two years from Jack White, frontman of The White Stripes, the most important band in the rock scene since the 2000s, and a highly acclaimed solo artist. The album was recorded, produced, and mixed at Third Man Studios from 2023 to 2024. The album was recorded, produced, and mixed at Third Man Studios from 2023 to 2024, pressed on vinyl at Third Man Pressing, and released through Third Man Records, a DIY roots label that produces and sells everything at its own Third Man-related facilities. Prior to the album's release, he also announced the new album as a surprise by secretly placing analog vinyl copies with the title "No Name" written on them in the bags of shoppers at his Third Man Records. Fans who were lucky enough to get one uploaded the vinyl to social networking sites, and the message "Could this be Jack White's new album? The announcement of the new release was a big hit in the various communities. This is a series of guerrilla-style release announcements that is typical of Jack White, who has been doing this in the past. Many listeners have said that it is the closest to the sound of The White Stripes among his solo works, and it is a major change in direction from his previous works, shifting to a rock sound full of catchy and powerful guitar riffs that can be described as a return to his roots. This is a major rock album to be released amidst the worldwide rock revival in the music scene. 発売・販売元 提供資料 （2024/08/23） Jack White didnt get where he is without a keen sense of theater and self-promotion, and not many artists could build a buzz around a new album the way he did with 2024s No Name. On July 19, 2024, anyone who made a purchase at one of Whites Third Man storesin Detroit, Nashville, and London would find in their bags a mysterious LP, in a plain white sleeve and with the white labels simply stamped "No Name." Of course, the sort of folks shopping at his stores are the sort of music nerds who would be intrigued and delighted by getting a mystery disc, and before long the music media was abuzz with stories about White releasing a new album in a manner that was at once secretive and bound to call attention to itself. It didnt take long for needle-drop bootlegs of the album to circulate online, and within a week, No Name had been given an official wide release. So what sort of album did White make to hype in this manner? No Name happens to be the most straightforward rock & roll album he has delivered in some time, a set of 13 tough guitar-based tunes with an abundance of swagger and a kick that melds the punky minimalism of the White Stripes with his well-documented obsession with Led Zeppelin. (You could make an effective drinking game out of making listeners take a shot when they hear a clear Zep lift in the melodies or Whites guitar.) If Whites two albums of 2022, Fear of the Dawn and Entering Heaven Alive, found him introspectively exploring the outer margins of his music as he struggled with the isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic, No Nameis an enthusiastic return to the familiar, though it doesnt play like a regression so much as an artist embracing their strengths and having a good time doing so. The lyrics are full of braggadocio, declaring "If Gods too busy then Ill bless myself" in "Bless Yourself" and "Ill make you miss me again" in "Missionary," and theyre matched to guitar work that rhymes. Whites leads constantly swing from elemental chunkiness to bluesy flash without losing his footing, and the clean, unobtrusive production flatters his tone and lets the other musicians strut their stuff without taking the spotlight off the star (as if he would permit such a thing). Even without its publicity stunt release, No Name would doubtless click with an awful lot of Jack Whites fans, and its the sort of idiosyncratic but lean and mean rock album hes needed to make for a while. ~ Mark Deming Rovi

Tracklisting:

1. Old Scratch Blues
2. Bless Yourself
3. That's How I'm Feeling
4. It's Rough On Rats (If You're Asking)
5. Archbishop Harold Holmes
6. Bombing Out
7. What's The Rumpus?
8. Tonight (Was A Long Time Ago)
9. Underground
10. Number One With A Bullet
11. Morning At Midnight
12. Missionary
13. Terminal Archenemy Endling