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I Think it May Started Rumor, That the Lord Ain’t Got No Humor
Sometimes, kids, quality really does trump quantity. Normally, I’m a ravenous, remorseless consumer of new music, shelling out scrilla with the slack-jawed eagerness of a meth addict looking for his fix. However, the triple hammer shots of unemployment, a 3,000 mile move, and an upcoming wedding have combined to drain my bank account with alarming rapidity. Hence, in the past month and a half, I have purchased only TWO (2) new releases. For a guy who normally averages 4-5 cd’s per week, this represents some serious (and painful) cold turkey.
But hey, if you’re only going to get two, they might as well be the two best cd’s you’ve heard all year, right?
The first comes from an old favorite, The White Stripes. Lest any of you worry that the staid, reserved tones of 2005’s Get Behind Me Satan signaled a band moving into the dreaded Adult Contemporary Purgatory, fear no more: Icky Thump rocks like 53 bastards.
Since people are always comparing the Stripes to Led Zeppelin anyway, I’ll extend the analogy: If Satan was the Stripes’ Zeppelin III (ie, “we’re bored with our signature sound, let’s branch out”) then Thump is their Zep IV (“let’s take all the experimentation from that last disc, incorporate it into our classic sound, and turn the damn amps up even louder.”)
Oh, and did I mention that we caught them live here in Maine last month, and on the Special Lady Friend’s birthday, no less?
UPDATE: Here’s a pretty good review of the show.
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