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 In the Dead Weather's world, love has nothing to do with flowers and chocolates; it's all about grenades and flak jackets."When you're so close to me," the magnetic Alison Mosshart sings in "Gasoline" from the band's sophomore album, "I can smell the gasoline.... I don't want a sweetheart, sweetheart/I want a machine." The Dead Weather's unrelenting commitment to exploring the outer limits of human passion is consistently breathtaking here. A lot of musicians approach that theme from a safe distance, but Mosshart, drummer Jack White, guitarist-keyboardist Dean Fertita and bassist Jack Lawrence utterly subsume the listener in a musical onslaught that exhibits not so much as a shred of moderation. What elevates Dead Weather above so many less mindful practitioners of heavy music is that it comes up with songs that are the equivalent of smart bombs. They zero in on a target rather than indiscriminately obliterating everything for miles around....full text |
| Ew |
| Sea of Cowards, the sophomore release from this psychedelic-blues band The Dead Weather, in which Jack White drums and sings, is a solid addition to his catalog, with 35 minutes of furious guitar solos and demonic howls. The latter come from White and the Kills' Alison Mosshart, who once again proves able to wrest the spotlight toward herself....full text |
| Spin |
| Between Jack White and Alison Mosshart, there's a whole lotta id spilled out on the garage floor. Either she's his evil twin, or he's hers, but their dirty, ferocious urges seem uncontainable. On the Dead Weather's second album, they harness this icy alpha-dog tension into a distorted call-and-response aggression that's now greater than its parts, a rudely heavy swath of rock'n'roll authority. When the White Stripes' mad hatter and Kills' board stomper first joined forces last year (with guitarist Dean Fertita of Queens of the Stone Age and bassist Jack Lawrence of the Raconteurs), their influences blended rather smoothly on debut album Horehound. Mosshart growled over the band's slow simmer, yelping in reply to White's bluesy syncopations and angry dictums, especially on single "Cut Like a Buffalo" and the Oedipal "Treat Me Like Your Mother." Sea of Cowards is more thunderously experimental -- all sludgy bass and thick arena riffs, uptempo and cocky, as White and Mosshart slap at each other with a sinister intensity. Opener "Blue Blood Blues" rattles out Sabbath-worthy guitar runs as White proclaims, "All the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service." "Old Mary" is a rotting, ominous prayer, and single "Die by the Drop" is almost cruelly intricate, folding into a bizarre quasi-9/8 time signature and nearly tipping the duo off a cliff. But that's clearly where they feel most satisfied, howling on the brink....full text |
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