Jack White Lazaretto (180 Gram Vinyl, Digital Download Card) home good and this eagerness to please

and this eagerness to please means the record is giddy but also overwhelming

a statement of artistic intent from one of the true polymaths of the millennial era

and his first solo album

inventive composition and performances full of conviction

Jack White Lazaretto (180 Gram Vinyl, Digital Download Card) home good and this eagerness to pleaseLike "blunderbuss," a "lazaretto" is an ancient reference that means little in the modern world, a fact that does not escape Jack White, a musician who specializes in blurring lines between past and present. Contrary to his carefully cultivated persona as a raider of lost Americana, White never, ever was a purist: he thrived upon seizing the precise moment when accepted definitions lose all meanings and turn into something new. This tension surfaces