I would imagine that most music fans know by now that Jack White has a problem with staying in one place for too long. The White Stripes and The Raconteurs both attested that the outlandish Detroit misfit was an honorable talent with nearly endless capabilities of really producing some seminal musical commodities - not that we really needed confirmation, but anyway...
Next on his list was another new band - this time with Alison Mosshart (The Kills), Dean Feritita (Queens Of The Stone Age) and fellow Raconteur Jack Lawrence. Since March 2009 there's been a blog-heavy response to what could be quite an eclectic musical exploration as Dead Weather get set to release their debut album this July.
There's currently a handful of songs bobbing around various blogs which have given us a taste of what we can expect. And to be honest, I'm not over whelmed by what could have possibly been an oddball-super group of great notability. Musically it's certainly momentous - gargantuan grubby riffs and filth-fueled garbage-grunge can never be underestimated when Mr White's behind the guitar, but he's not really taken a step forward, he just seems to be standing in the same place - to me it just seems like the White Stripes got a little heavier and recruited a couple more members.
White's certainly a bit of a revolutionary in this day and age though, he never fails to make an organised racket that's both poetic and chaotic, but perhaps Dead Weather are a little to cozy here - Anyhow, in retrospect, I've only heard three songs, so I could be eating my words and appologising very very soon so I will focus on the positives...
Mosshart's vocals are top-notch. Glazed in a scuzzy gloom that fixes her firmly in the running for Queen of grunge, it's a celebration of togetherness with her and White who, it has to be said, go together like cheese and biscuits. Perfecto! Let's just see if the eccentric wonder-boy can pull the punches and switch it up with the debut due out on July 14th - "Horehound".
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