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Jul 22, 2024It’s the freshest and most exciting rock and roll album to come down the pike in years.
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Aug 14, 2024It towers over the vast majority of contemporary rock music with its controlled tunefulness while ever maintaining the effortless modern appeal of Jack White himself.
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Aug 7, 2024The playing here is terrific and as good as, if not better than, anything on De Stijl, Elephant and Icky Thump; the writing is locked in and the production sounds as consistent as anything he’s ever manned. Throughout the 43 minute-runtime of No Name, Jack White sounds like everything you need him to be.
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Aug 5, 2024No Name is wonderful, magical, truthful and the most consistently surprising rock album of the year by some margin. Just Jack White doing Jack White things.
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Jul 25, 2024On No Name, he’s done something special on his own terms, delighted and surprised his audience, and provided one of the great rock moments of the year. [Oct 2024, p.30]
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Aug 15, 2024No Name is the sound of an artist let loose in the funhouse, doing what he does best. It’s a low stakes record that serves as something of a reset for White; it also reconnects him with his primal muse.
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Aug 1, 2024No Name has a couple of stellar tracks, and taken together it’s probably Jack White’s most enjoyable solo album since Blunderbuss.
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Aug 9, 2024Even without its publicity stunt release, No Name would doubtless clicked with an awful lot of Jack White's fans, and it's the sort of idiosyncratic but lean and mean rock album he's needed to make for a while.
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Aug 5, 2024On solo album number six, the meal is lean and hella spicy.
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Aug 2, 2024While a full band surrounds him, all that functionally matters here is White. The tracks live and die by his presence, not unsurprising given that we’re dealing with a uniquely possessive auteur.
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Aug 1, 2024Jack White’s surprise album retreats from grandiose musical ideas (that could be hit or miss), back into the safety of his bluesy rawk. However, that doesn’t diminish the ripping results, as No Name is a blast of direct six-string aggression that is ultra rare in 2024, which puts it in its own timeless class.
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Aug 1, 2024No Name is a much more nuanced record, more of a piece with White’s entire varied discography, than it might have first appeared.
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Jul 24, 2024With his trademark pliability anchored deep beneath the surface, he is able to swerve from garage blues (“A_01,” tentatively) to glimpses of the Raconteurs (“A_03”) to electric folk (“B_02”) with a coherence few can replicate.
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Jul 22, 2024The album is some of the best, most lively garage-blues crunch he’s given us in many many moons, with just the right amount of eccentricity thrown in.
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Jul 22, 2024No Name finds White in revival mode, ditching the grand conceptual flourishes to go back to the source. Sounding leaner and sharper than he has for some time, this supposedly throwaway release is one of his very best.
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Aug 7, 2024The project’s raw immediacy initially suggested it might be throwaway, a palette cleanser before White resumed his usual studio tinkering, but its triple-octane riffage and seething, sticky hooks pointed to something more lasting and substantial.
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Jul 22, 2024NO NAME isn't quite as white-knuckled as the first time White made music like this, nor is it as hooky as those White Stripes songs that took them from underground weirdos to superstars. But it's exciting to hear White fully return to the sound he's best known for, with its no-nonsense execution heightened by the thrilling manner in which it was released.
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