Jack White - 2018 - Boarding House Reach [EAC FLAC]
Artist: Jack White
Title: Boarding House Reach
Format: CD, Album
Country: Europe
Producer: Jack White
Release Date: March 23, 2018
Recorded: 2017 at Third Man Studio, Nashville, Tennessee; Sear Sound, New York City; Capitol Studios, Los Angeles
Label: Third Man Records/XL Recordings
Catalog: XL906CD
Barcode: 191404090626
Genre: Rock, Alternative Rock, Blues Rock, Hard Rock
Duration: 44:14
Jack White:
Wikipedia:
Jack White (born John Anthony Gillis; July 9, 1975) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer and actor. He is known as the lead singer and guitarist of duo The White Stripes. He has also had success in other bands and as a solo artist. On April 24, 2012, White released his debut solo album, Blunderbuss. His second studio album, Lazaretto, was released on June 10, 2014. Both received wide commercial and critical acclaim.
After moonlighting in several underground Detroit bands as a drummer, White founded The White Stripes with fellow Detroit native Meg White in 1997. Their 2001 breakthrough album, White Blood Cells, brought them international fame with the hit single and accompanying music video, "Fell in Love with a Girl". This recognition provided White opportunities to collaborate with famous artists, including Loretta Lynn and Bob Dylan. In 2006, White founded The Raconteurs with Brendan Benson, and in 2009 founded The Dead Weather with Alison Mosshart of The Kills.
White has enjoyed consistent critical and popular success and is widely credited as one of the key artists in the garage rock revival of the 2000s. He has won twelve Grammy Awards, and both of his solo albums have reached number one on the Billboard charts. Rolling Stone ranked him number 70 on its 2010 list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". David Fricke's 2011 list ranked him at number 17. White has an extensive collection of guitars and other instruments, and has a preference for vintage items that often have connections to famous blues artists. He is a vocal advocate for analog technology and recording techniques. White is also a board member of the Library of Congress' National Recording Preservation Foundation. His record label and studio Third Man Records releases vinyl recordings of his own work, as well as that of other artists and local school children. His latest album holds the record for most first-week vinyl sales since 1991.
White values his privacy and has been known to create misdirection about his personal life. He and Meg divorced in 2000. He was then married to model and singer Karen Elson from 2005 to 2013; together, they have a son and daughter. He currently resides in Nashville, Tennessee. He recently bought a house in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Boarding House Reach:
Wikipedia:
Boarding House Reach is the third studio album by American rock musician Jack White, released on March 23, 2018 through Third Man Records, Columbia Records, and XL Recordings. It is his first solo studio album in nearly four years, following Lazaretto (2014).
After recording independently in Nashville, the album was also recorded throughout 2017 in New York City and Los Angeles. "Connected by Love" was released as the album's lead single on January 10, with "Over and Over and Over" following up as the second on March 1.
Boarding House Reach received generally positive reviews, with its unorthodox production and style noted as a departure from White's previous studio albums and projects. While critics mainly praised the album for its ambition, experimentalism and artistic approach, its criticisms mainly focused on its inconsistency and production. The album performed well commercially, topping the US Billboard 200 upon release, making it White's third number-one album on that chart. Elsewhere, it was a number-one album in Canada and reached number five in Scotland, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.
AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine:
Due to his affection for prewar music and myths, Jack White often gets pigeonholed as a blues-rock revivalist -- an assessment that isn't so much wrong as it is incomplete. Even in the earliest days of the White Stripes, White limited his aural palette with deliberate zeal, a practice he sustained through the Stripes as well as his first two solo albums. Boarding House Reach is where he expands his horizons and that discipline begins to fracture, and quite intentionally so. "Connected by Love" -- the album's opening track and first single -- is a rousing bit of arena rock and the only cut that could truly have appeared on either Blunderbuss or Lazaretto. Once that song draws to a close, White dives into a moody electronic meditation called "Why Walk a Dog?" -- an oddity that's quickly eclipsed by the hard funk of "Corporation," a song that marks the third different sound in as many tracks. Things get progressively stranger from this point forward. Recitations commingle with raps, gurgling synthesizers tangle with blues piano, operatic overdubs are paired with fuzz guitars, sci-fi send-ups meet their match with short stories. Every moment suggests that White is kicking against the pricks, desperate to be seen as a modern rock artist, not a fusty throwback. While his attempt at redefinition is a success -- there's no question that this is the work of an artist willing to take risks -- it's an open question whether Boarding House Reach succeeds as an album. Its diffuse nature is enthralling, but it also means that the record has a halting momentum -- a perhaps inevitable byproduct of a musician eager to drive himself into the ditch. Another odd element of Boarding House Reach is how, despite his thirst to get weird, White is by nature a very regimented artist who has a desire to have everything in its right place. "Corporation" and "Ice Station Zebra," the two funkiest numbers here, illustrate this with their precise grooves, but even the self-consciously weird interludes show this same level of exactitude. While that keeps Boarding House Reach somewhat in a straitjacket, it also makes it a fascinating listen, because it's a document of a control freak anxious to get loose.
Tracklist:
01. Connected By Love (4:39)
02. Why Walk a Dog? (2:29)
03. Corporation (5:39)
04. Abulia and Akrasia (1:28)
05. Hypermisophoniac (3:34)
06. Ice Station Zebra (4:00)
07. Over and Over and Over (3:36)
08. Everything You’ve Ever Learned (2:13)
09. Respect Commander (4:33)
10. Ezmerelda Steals the Show (1:43)
11. Get in the Mind Shaft (4:13)
12. What’s Done is Done (2:54)
13. Humoresque (3:13)
Personnel:
Primary Artist:
Jack White – vocals (except track 4), electric guitar (tracks 2, 3, 5–7, 9, 11, 12), acoustic drums (tracks 3, 6, 8, 9), synthesizer (tracks 1, 3, 5, 8), acoustic guitar (tracks 1, 10, 12), electronic drums (track 6), bass (track 6), piano (track 6), tambourine (track 7), organ (track 10)
Session Musicians:
Bobby Allende – percussion (tracks 1–3, 7–9), acoustic drums (track 8)
Carla Azar – acoustic drums (tracks 5, 6, 11, 12), electronic drums (tracks 6, 9, 11, 12)
Anthony “Brew” Brewster – synthesizer (tracks 5, 6, 9, 11, 12), Hammond organ (track 12)
Justin Carpenter – trombone (track 4)
Louis Cato – acoustic drums (tracks 1, 7, 13), electronic drums (tracks 2, 3, 9), acoustic guitar (track 13), bass (track 13)
Dominic Davis – upright bass (track 4)
Neal Evans – synthesizer (tracks 1–3, 7–9), Hammond organ (track 1), piano (track 13)
Joshua Gillis – acoustic guitar (track 4)
DJ Harrison – synthesizer (tracks 1, 2, 7, 8), keyboards (track 3)
Daru Jones – drums (tracks 4, 7)
Fats Kaplin – fiddle (track 4)
Charlotte Kemp Muhl – electric bass (tracks 1–4, 7–9), six-string bass (track 2)
Neil Konouchi – tuba (track 4)
Ann McCrary – backing vocals (tracks 1, 3, 11)
Quincy McCrary – piano (tracks 5, 6, 11), synthesizer (tracks 9, 11)
Regina McCrary – backing vocals (track 1, 3, 11)
Gianluca Braccio Montone – piano samples (track 3)
Ian Montone – piano samples (track 3)
NeonPhoenix – electric bass (tracks 5, 6, 9, 11, 12)
Justin Porée – percussion (tracks 5, 6, 9, 11, 12), udu (track 6)
Esther Rose – backing vocals (tracks 11, 12)
Kevin Smith – trumpet (track 4)
C. W. Stoneking – spoken word (track 4)
Brooke Waggoner – piano (track 4)
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