Icky Thump (2007) Album Review

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Guardian

Heavy riffage! Mariachi blues! Meg and Jack are back.
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Pitchfork

The White Stripes are still thriving.
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TinyMixTapes

Icky Thump, then, is a bit of a resurrection: Reuniting with Meg gives Jack the opportunity to slip back into sister-lover character, get his weird clothes out of attic, and return to basement blues. After the straightforward radio-rock trappings of the
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StylusMagazine

They are sturdy, virtually indestructible testaments. They are impressive, breathtaking at turns, and everlastingly present.
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StylusMagazine

Although The White Stripes still haven't made that Great American Album its supporters claim is in it, Icky Thump's a big leap toward it. The White Stripes seem to have digested the whole of 50 years of American music by now, and aren't afraid to look
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Guardian

Heavy riffage! Mariachi blues! Meg and Jack are back.
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Pitchfork

The White Stripes are still thriving.
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TinyMixTapes

Aversion

They are sturdy, virtually indestructible testaments. They are impressive, breathtaking at turns, and everlastingly present.
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RollingStone

Icky Thump should play well anywhere.
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RollingStone

The White Stripes are loud again, sure, with sharp and jagged guitar fills winding and twisting throughout the disc like abducted lightning, but this has nothing to do with the first two LPs.
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PrefixMag

Icky Thump should play well anywhere.
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Stylus Magazine

With a band like the White Stripes, I often feel like we should lower our word minimum at Stylus. “This is a White Stripes record.” Episode X, Season Y. Perhaps a post-script: “Oh, and it’s not like Get Behind Me Satan. You’ll actually
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Drowned In Sound

Jack hauled more than bagpipes to his garage to make Icky Thump, which is easily his loudest album - maybe he found a beat-up Marshall stack somewhere or a tube amp forgotten by history.
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This is by far The White Stripes most peculiar record, retaining with ease the enigmatic elements that made them so essential circa their breakthrough and before it. Despite the previous admission from Jack White that 2003s LP Elephant would be their
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