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Great albulm with excellent songs. If you like the white stripes you will love this albulm. Would highly recommend.
my guess is that Icky Thump refers to Meg White's no-frills percussion style. Whatever it means, the White Stripes get back to kicking out the jams on an album that recalls the acid rock era. While much of the album echoes early Led Zep (including the folky "Prickly Thorn, But Sweetly Worn"), "Bone Broke" is the kind of 'tardo rock song that the Beastie Boys excel at, "St. Andrew" is the sound of the Beatles going insane, and "Conquest" casts images of Iron Butterfly disrupting the patrons at a Mexican restaurant. And yet it all somehow sounds like the White Stripes.
Icky Thump consists of more of the 'rocky blues' numbers that we have come to love from the Stripes, plus, as with Get Behind Me Satan, some more unique tracks featuring Scottish & Mexican influences. For me, these experiments work better than the ones in Get Behind Me did. This is partly because the duo recorded this album over an unprecedented 3 weeks in a recording studio. Despite it being a low-tech studio (just as Jack likes it), the result is much more polished than the prevoius album, which - recorded in Jack's home - sometimes featured background noises. But their trademark skilfully-channeled raw spirit is thankfully still ever-present.
There is nothing particularly new from the White Stripes here. It is the same old mixture of great tunes, blistering performance and quite a deal of eccentricity. They truly are the Marmite of modern music. The moment I played this I loved it. Others will probably hate it. You should know which camp you fall into by now Don't be put off by the Pearly King and Queen cover or the reference to a cod marshal art using black puddings as a weapon (invented by the Goodies if I remember right.) This is Jack and Meg doing what they do best; making great music of a sort only they can do
This is a different album to the rest of the white stripes catalogue for me it doesnt grab you by the balls on the first liten like white blood cells and elephant do but it certainly is worth listening to, full of quality musical statements it sees jack and meg do what they always do which is the unexpected.probably not the album to buy if your just getting into the white stripes but certainly one which you should add to a pre existing collection
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