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Jack White review – virtuoso noisemaker delivers in riotous style
White and his band sound like a hooligan Rage Against the Machine or a basement-dwelling AC/DC
His band – drummer Patrick Keeler, bassist Dominic Davis and keyboardist Bobby Emmett, who looks like a defrosted Ramone – is one he might have formed back in 1997 if not for Meg White and conceptual purity: more conventional but thrillingly feral in the mode of his Detroit forebears the Stooges and MC5. New songs like the irresistible, hilarious Archbishop Harold Holmes tumble into irradiated White Stripes classics, sprouting outrageous guitar solos and cacophonous outros. The rinsed-to-death riff from Seven Nation Army sounds volcanic when White is leading it, while the Raconteurs’ powerpop gem Steady As She Goes swells to Godzilla proportions.
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