Jack White approved…

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Brad Shoup: Answering the question, “what would Jack White sound like if he weren’t such a raging, seething id?” with “a little like the Stampeders.”
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Alfred Soto: I prefer their guitar tunings and voices to Jack White’s, to cite that other avatar of musical necrophilia. But a preference is just a preference.
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Anthony Easton: It’s a museum piece, but I like some people working through museum pieces, so that’s not really my objection. It doesn’t quite release itself into full chaos, though it seems to want to. It is trying to bring back Muscle Shoals, but the stuff that comes from Muscle Shoals is a lot more interesting, so that might be my objection: a poor compromise between historically minded Southern soul and noisy fun for fun’s sake.
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Jonathan Bogart: When I listened to it sight unseen, I mentally filed it away as Okay Kingsofleony Rootsrock, not for me but not to be held against anyone who liked them either. When I watched the video — I’ll be embarrassingly callow — I was surprised to learn that Brittany Howard was a black woman singing in her own voice instead of a bearded boy aping John Fogerty and Ronnie Van Zandt. My racist, sexist bad for assuming a default setting of White Male, of course — and it might not also be entirely creditable that once I saw her I was much more interested in her music. Except, well, here we are.
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Iain Mew: The official video sees them play live rather than being of the recorded version and it’s easy to see why. It’s a magnificent performance of controlled power that shouts out that this may be old music but it’s everything that matters to them right now. The drums and bass are whipped into a thick foam and Brittany Howard’s roar and the song sound like two things which need each other really badly and are clinging on to make things work, rather than just being two separate neat impressions. The record sounds very tame in comparison. The mark is averaged across the two.
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