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Icky Thump
Bagpipes, a song written as the soundtrack to a Michel Gondry music video, Patti Page's musical shadow, and Jack and Meg co-narrating a scavenger's rummages: It must be time for Icky Thump, the many-flavored riposte to 2006's Get Behind Me Satan. The duo starts big with the title track--Jack's fast-tumbling, falsetto-tinged lyrics jagging on hyper keyboard-sounding segues and Meg's pounding drums. They rarely shy from an idea, invoking acoustic Bob Dylan to frame "300 M.P.H. Torrential Outpour Blues," but interjecting a series of distortion-laden guitar paroxysms for good measure. The end of Icky, on "Effect and Cause," is where Jack's trademark vocal warble and spare, quick acoustic strums meet Meg's single-minded beats. Everywhere on Icky giant riffs leap and shout, with Flamenco horns and those eerie bagpipes and rhythmic shifts and Jack's impatient vocal kinetics, marking new territories even as the White Stripes again populate them with vintage ideas. --Andrew Bartlett
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Tracks| 1 | Icky Thump | | 2 | You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do As You're Told) | | 3 | 300 M.P.H. Torrential Outpour Blues | | 4 | Conquest | | 5 | Bone Broke | | 6 | Prickly Thorn, But Sweetly Worn | | 7 | St. Andrew (This Battle Is In The Air) | | 8 | Little Cream Soda | | 9 | Rag And Bone | | 10 | I'm Slowly Turning Into You | | 11 | A Martyr For My Love For You | | 12 | Catch Hell Blues | | 13 | Effect and Cause |
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