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.
Read more about Icky Thump on Guardian
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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Aversion
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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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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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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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 2003’s LP Elephant would be their
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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 2003’s LP Elephant would be their
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Icky Thump is ranked overall as 3.2110 out of 4 stars
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Icky Thump is ranked overall as 3.2261 out of 4 stars

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