When Jack White gets quiet, you know there’s a storm brewing. While a new full-length album has been announced for 2015 from Jack’s band The Dead Weather (complete with a hauntingly awesome new single “Open Up (That’s Enough)” – listen here), White has revealed that he’s rounding the final bend on his second solo LP.
In a recent chat with fans on the Third Man Records message board, the Third Man Records nucleus broke the news on his new record. “I’m producing two albums this month, and finishing them,” White wrote. “One of them is mine.”
The follow-up to 2012’s Blunderbuss is high on our list of most-anticipated albums of 2014. Last February, White told Rolling Stone that the record is “definitely not one sound. It’s definitely several. Like you heard in Blunderbuss, there’s many different styles there. I don’t pick my style and then write a song. I just write whatever comes out of me, and whatever style it is is what it is, and it becomes something later.”
Additionally, the Third Man’s “Vault” subscription series now offers limited-edition reissues of the four singles from the White Stripes’ 2003 masterpiece, Elephant. “Seven Nation Army,” “I Just Don’t Know What to Do With Myself,” “The Hardest Button to Button,” and “There’s No Home For You Here” are all being reissued, pressed on clear 7-inch vinyl. The B-sides include a cover of Brendan Benson’s “Good to Me”; a cover of Blanche’s “Who’s to Say…”; a cover of the Soledad Brothers’ “St. Ides of March”; and a live, in-studio medley of the Stripes’ doing “I Fought Piranhas” and “Let’s Build a Home.”
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