Only a few weeks left until Jack White drops his debut solo album, Blunderbuss, on a seriously rock-deprived world. He's released two singles already, "Love Interruption" and "Sixteen Saltines."
I'll be very surprised if this isn't the best album of the year.
If you've been following Jack lately you may have noticed a very marked change in his music, beginning last year with his collaboration with Danger Mouse. The lyrics that Jack White contributed to that album (Rome) are quite obviously those of a depressed, lonely and insular man, and are much darker than anything Jack wrote in the White Stripes or the Raconteurs.
Blunderbuss appears to be following that pattern, and I couldn't be happier about that. I think "Love Interruption" is one of the best songs of his career, and although "Sixteen Saltines" seems like a White Stripes outtake at first, listening to the lyrics reveals a very clear evolution from his work in that band.
