Jack and Meg White, the members of possibly the most famous and most successful Detroit garage rock duo return with the new release, Icky Thump. The album continues the White Stripes tradition of simple garage rock with the addition of synthesizers, a country feel on a couple of tracks, and softer vocals. The album continues like this until the bizarre “Conquest”. It sounds like the White Stripes making a foray into ska, which is very unusual, but somehow, it works. The next track is a typical White Stripes track, but then, “Prickly Thorn, But Sweetly Worn” is possibly as strange as “Conquest”. It is all thumping bass drum, clapping and and sounds like a pub drinking song, especially when, what sounds like bagpipes, come in. Continuing down this bizarre path is the short and strange “St. Andrew (The Battle is In the Air)”. All it is, is a woman speaking over some of the strangest music I’ve ever heard. Two tracks later, “Rag & Bone” makes the White Stripes sound like they would if they were covering a ZZ Top song. The last four tracks are all still strange, just not as much as the others. All in all, this is definitely the most sonically adventurous White Stripes album. Despite it’s obvious differences from other Stripe’s albums like White Blood Cells, Elephant, and even Get Behind Me Satan, it works for them.
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