Cooljma

This is more like less like something like it I like it. I like this album. I don't love it, but there’s a lot of good here. I know I opened my Get Behind Me Satan review by saying “everything feels like it’s been done before”, but that’s not entirely true of that album. Here, however, I don’t think it could be any truer. This is the most back-to-basics, garage-blues-rock banger mode White Stripes we’ve gotten since White Blood Cells, and that’s ... read more

I had a really close friend in high school who introduced me to a lot of music I love, and the importance of that (and everything else from that friendship) in my life has been immeasurable. And, in some significant part, it’s been that importance that has kept this album with me all this time since. Rise Against’s The Black Market is my favorite album of all time, and while I’ve questioned myself on that statement a bajillion times since I first decided on it some years ago, ... read more

Everything on Get Behind Me Satan feels like it’s been done before, which of course it has. I shouldn’t be surprised that The White Stripes’ fifth album feels a bit stale; their formula has been tried and true for the most part up to this point, but this time around it just feels tried. This could’ve been the time to really switch things up, but instead the duo has elected to change nothing and persevere with what’s already worked before. And that, unfortunately, ... read more

This is… less like it. A lot less. Far less than I was expecting. I mean a ridiculous amount less than I should’ve ever reasonably expected. I mean, this thing opens with the band’s most iconic song which I’ve loved for years and still enjoy every time I hear it, and it’s even got my favorite White Stripes song overall in The Air Near My Fingers! This should’ve been a shoo-in! And then I reached track 4, I Just Don’t Know What to Do with Myself, which ... read more