Anyone got Jack White's new album yet? I saw it behind the counter and managed to buy a copy last week, before it was released and have had it on replay ever since. There isn't a bad song on the album.

I love the album, it's better than Blunderbuss. Next to "Lazaretto", my favorite song is "Alone in my Home".

missfee said:

I love the album, it's better than Blunderbuss. Next to "Lazaretto", my favorite song is "Alone in my Home".

I think Blunderbuss is a much better album than Lazaretto, which I found to be a little disappointing, tbh.

Ordered the CD last night should be here tomm. if it,s anything like his last Ill love it. Too bad the vinyl is expensive.

After only one listen, I can tell it's a fantastic album and possibly Album of the Year for me!

Here's the Rolling Stone review:

http://www.rollingstone.c...o-20140610

Jack White makes heavy, turbulent modern-blues records the same way he pursues his other passion, furniture restoration: with a decisive attention to contour, color scheme and cagey, durable detail. "Three Women," the opening rumble on Lazaretto, is based (with a co-writing credit) on Blind Willie McTell's 1928 recording "Three Women Blues." But White's spin on McTell's overload of lovin' is a thorough redesign in density and rhythmic combat: stop-start bursts of bull-elephant march tightly rigged with coughing organ, a power-rock riff hammered on piano and White yelping "Lordy Lord!" – quoting McTell in 1933's "Broke Down Engine" – against skidding pedal-steel guitar. Like White's best, brawling work with the White Stripes, the Raconteurs and the Dead Weather, "Three Women" has a pocket you can sink into, and it glows with trouble.

So it goes across Lazaretto, literally a house of blues (the title is Italian for a lepers' hospital), with each room outfitted according to White's mood and trials: the hip-hop seizure and hog-squeal guitar in "Lazaretto"; the bleak piano and deathangel voices in "Would You Fight for My Love?" as if Queen came from antebellum Mississippi; the crushing voodoo of "That Black Bat Licorice," lined with nervous mandolin and scalding fiddle. "Every single bone in my brain is electric," White crows in "Lazaretto," acknowledging the slim line between craft and crazy in his finely wrought swerves and choruses. He knows how to make pure fun. "Just One Drink" is a thumping hybrid of Tommy Ramone-like pulse and the Rolling Stones' "Let It Bleed." But there's challenge even there. "Put a fork in the road/With me," White sings – his gentleman's way of saying, "My way or the highway."

He has pretty much had it his way since the end of the last century. Lazaretto is only White's second solo album, but he's played on and produced dozens of records since 1999's The White Stripes, mostly for his own Third Man label. The guy playing the brute-fuzz guitar in the Gothic-garage instrumental "High Ball Stepper" doesn't sound like anyone's pushover. But as in "Three Women," White draws on older blues for these songs: prose and plays he wrote as a teenager about his busted heart and dogged ambition, sawed and planed into new settings and urgency.

The kid is still in there. White demands control to the point of spite in the weirdly jaunty "Alone in My Home." He also accepts isolation and suspicion as the price of self-rule. "I know what you're thinking/What gives me the right?" he snaps in "Three Women," to a mocking laugh of pedal-steel guitar. Yet White can't stop looking for someone who can scale his walls and ride his trains. He sings many of these songs, like "Temporary Ground," a ballad about sharing both comfort and fear, in close harmony with women. And for all of his lonewolf swagger, White is willing to work to beat his blues. "I can't bring myself to take without penance . . . or sweat from my brow," he insists in "Entitlement" – like a craftsman who feels most at home in his own shop, with his favorite tools.

It might just be the album of the year for me too! And that's a great review from rolling stone.

Meh. Jack White gets all kinds of hype and props while Keb'Mo, despite his Grammys, is mostly

ignored by the media.

on first listen ..seems overrated

http://www.billboard.com/...les-record

Jack White's 'Lazaretto' Debuts at No. 1, Sets Vinyl Sales Record

Rocker Jack White claims his second No. 1 album on the Billboard 200, as "Lazaretto" bows in the top slot with 138,000 sold in the week ending June 15, according to NielsenSoundScan.

The effort follows his solo debut, "Blunderbuss," which also opened atop the list and sold 138,000 in its first frame. (It sold a handful of copies less, actually, but when rounded to the nearest thousand, both figures become 138,000.)

"Lazaretto" — released on White's Third Man Records label through Columbia Records — also sets the record for the largest sales week for a vinyl album since SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991.

The vinyl LP sold 40,000 copies — easily enough to debut at No. 1 on Billboard's Vinyl Albums chart. (The vinyl edition of the album has many unusual bonus features that clearly intriguedconsumers.)

It beats the debut of Pearl Jam's "Vitalogy," which sold 34,000 vinyl LPs in its first week, back in 1994. (Notably, "Vitalogy" was issued on vinyl first, two weeks before its release on CD and cassette.)

"This is my proudest moment with Third Man Records, this object," White said of the LP to Conan O'Brien during an appearance on "Conan" on June 11. During some of his recent TV appearances White has described some of the unique qualities the vinyl piece contains, like how the LP plays at three different speeds, the tracks it has hidden under the center label (that are playable) and how side A plays from the inside to the outside of the disc.

To put the sales of the vinyl"Lazaretto" in further perspective, the configuration on its own would have ranked at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 this week. In total, vinyl LP sales of “Lazaretto” accounted for 28.9 percent of the album's first-week sales — nearly beating the number of CDs that were sold (41,000; 30 percent of the album's debut). Downloads were 41.1 percent.