Blunderbuss isn’t just (arguably) the best album of the year so far, it opens up a whole new world for him.
Blunderbuss is outstanding, White’s finest and most consistent work to date.
While Blunderbuss appears to be definite off-loading of emotional baggage, it also feels like a move toward rebirth.
Blunderbuss gets stranger and more fascinating the closer you listen.
Blunderbuss is more than just a sum of its diverse musical parts. The record’s distinctive feel, a difficult quality to explain, makes it utterly addictive.
On his debut solo album, Blunderbuss, Jack White and a fulsome cast of guests have created a veritable chocolate box of 12 delicious, different aural treats.
Lovelorn, honest, poignant and emotional in the best way imaginable.
There are at least five songs on Blunderbuss that match the excellence of The White Stripes’ best, and on the whole the album performs the tricky task of updating White’s musical aesthetic without euthanizing its primal nature.
On Blunderbuss, he's stumbled into some nasty business. These are songs of ruthless temptresses and treacherous men, of uncontrollable desire and unbearable guilt.
Blunderbuss has a special casualness to it, thanks to White surrounding himself with a coterie of Nashville locals able to take him where he wants to go. The destination in question may very well be back to the early ’70s, where country- and blues-tinged crossover records captivated America’s post-Vietnam psyche.
This is a hard, dark, inventive record that strongly suggests that give or take an imaginary sister and some fiddles, Jack White is pretty much the same boy we've always known.
While ‘Blunderbuss’ isn’t that definitive, unarguable document we’ve been seeking, it still feels like his most candid and personal record yet.
It's a comfortable shoe of a record, a distillation of everything he's done during the past decade, without the cultivated obstinacy.
At the end of the day, White’s still an enigma, and so is Blunderbuss, its mysteries unfolding in odd ways when you least expect it.
It's got some of his best pure songwriting yet, but no earth-cracking riffs.
There’s a certain Opryland jam-session charm to it all, but Blunderbuss lacks the electric jolt that made previous outfits the White Stripes and the Dead Weather so exciting.
There is not quite enough confidence, not quite enough honesty to elevate Blunderbuss to the record Jack White wants it to be.
A seventh White Stripes album in all but name, it continues the widening of White’s sonic palate.
He’s a little scatterbrained on Blunderbuss, as if he’s still shaking up his past to move forward into the future, and as a result, Jack White represents everything Jack White has already accomplished.
Ripe with unchallenged easy listening and devoid of the raw energy that ripped through the Stripes
Blunderbuss has all the stomp and sway of his best records, but also the unevenness that plagues him to varying degrees.
If you can put the sixth form lyrics and first half aside, Blunderbuss is a great record.
In the end, Blunderbuss is a confused little record that wants to be two things at once: a pointed statement about the pains of a breakup and a collection of songs that are both daring and wacky and eccentric all at once.
These are some solid tracks here Mr. White, I think you will get big some day!!!!
Missing Pieces - 8
Sixteen Saltines - 9.5
Freedom At 21 - 10
Love Interruption - 8.5
Blunderbuss - 8
Hypocritical Kiss - 8.5
Weep Themselves To Sleep - 9
I’m Shakin - 8
Trash Tongue Talker - 9
Hip (Eponymous) Poor Boy - 6
Guess I Should Go To Sleep - 6
On And On And On - 8
Take Me With You When You Go - 6.5
Jack White's first major stride into his solo career, Blunderbuss, sees him continue the blues inspired garage rock revival sound and what a great solo debut it is. Filled with the raw, passionate energy found in his Whtie Stripes era alongside a more introspective side of him and his music makes for quite a good combo. The tracklist is a bit dragged out but has some great songs in their with Sixteen Saltines being one of his best solo songs and the guitar playing is obviously great but matches ... read more
Missing Pieces - 4/5
Sixteen Saltines - 3/5
Freedom At 21 - 4/5
Love Interruption - 3/5
Blunderbuss - 3/5
Hypocritical Kiss - 5/5 ❤
Weep Themselves to Sleep - 4/5
I'm Shakin' - 3/5
Trash Tongue Talker - 3/5
Hip (Eponymous) Poor Boy - 3/5
I Guess I Should Go to Sleep - 3/5
On and On and On - 3/5
Take Me With You When You Go - 4/5
As with every Jack White project, there's so many great moments, and yet the albums are consistently held back by their slower songs.
I made a joke involving this album once when I was studying abroad and now this album just reminds me of the Venetian Maritime Museum
1 | Missing Pieces 3:26 | 83 |
2 | Sixteen Saltines 2:37 | 84 |
3 | Freedom At 21 2:51 | 83 |
4 | Love Interruption 2:37 | 78 |
5 | Blunderbuss 3:06 | 79 |
6 | Hypocritical Kiss 2:50 | 87 |
7 | Weep Themselves to Sleep 4:19 | 79 |
8 | I'm Shakin' 3:00 | 78 |
9 | Trash Tongue Talker 3:20 | 72 |
10 | Hip (Eponymous) Poor Boy 3:03 | 69 |
11 | I Guess I Should Go to Sleep 2:37 | 69 |
12 | On and On and On 3:55 | 70 |
13 | Take Me With You When You Go 4:07 | 79 |
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