White Stripes "Icky Thump" Album Review

4.5 Ninja Stars from Jbuc on this one, check out the review below.

The Stripes are back with all their lovable weirdness! Like White Blood Cells to an industry infected by scratch and sniff bands yet still wonders why their numbers are down. It couldn't’t be any clearer than on “St. Andrew” a bagpipe jam session over which Jack asks in a helium drenched voice “What exactly do you want me to say.” This and the spoken word over blasting guitar riffs of “Little Cream Soda” would surely have been left on the cutting room floor of a major-label yet are essential to what the Stripes are. Icky Thump is The White Stripes album that long-time fans were unsure whether they would ever make again. It has the unpolished grit the aforementioned White Blood Cells and their eponymous debut but they have definitely grown artistically since those days. Really an anthology, of sorts, of everything you love about the band. You’ll be intrigued on first listen and love it even more afterwards. If not, it’s okay, you can go right back to your M.I.M.S. album.

Standout Tracks: Rag and Bone, Conquest, A Martyr For My Love For You

Misses: none (give it a second listen you’ll see what I mean)