Jack White by David James Swanson
It’s the first solo Jack White track in three years.
Jack White has been back at his Third Man base in Nashville recording a new song entitled Taking Me Back, self-producing and playing every instrument in the process.
It features in the trailer for the latest Call Of Duty game, and continues a solo career which got underway in 2014 with Lazaretto.
“In keeping with past innovation flying in the face of stagnation, White throws in a purely instrumental blues howl of a track on ‘High Ball Stepper‘, where dirty bass guitar notes strut like a lost Dead Weather song having finally found its home, exacerbated in the extensive scraping, metallic guitar shrieks punctuating the remainder of the track, leading into the simplistic country rock genius of ‘Just One Drink‘ – a loveless relationship and an ill attempt at rectifying matters by way of intoxication,” our review reads.
“‘Alone In My Home‘ is White’s depiction of how a person can be surrounded by people during the day, but when twilight descends feelings of loneliness linger, emphasised in remarks such as, ‘I’m becoming a ghost, becoming a ghost, so that nobody can know me’, interspersed with mandolin and maniacally stuttered, spritely piano which in parts sounds uncannily like the melody found on Vampire Weekend’s ‘Giving Up The Gun’.”
