Jack White - Blunderbuss

Clash Music“A powerful album...” It’s thick, full, and heavy, with enough layers and bombshells to suggest he’s left the minimalism of his former duo far behind...

The Observer“Another reliably great outing...” Whose repertoire-expanding spaciness feels genuinely novel for White, an artist more at home with starkness. This solo album's new colour scheme is a telling blue: the colour of bruises and possibility...

NME“His most candid and personal record yet...” At the record’s end, whether by accident or design, you sense he’s let slip a morsel of himself that was once jealously guarded. Perhaps that’s just what he wants you to think, of course...

The Line of Best Fit“Completely forgettable...” Musically Blunderbuss is vast, pushing the bookends of what constitutes a rock record and giving it a concept album feel, which unfortunately exacerbates the record’s weakness. There’s invigorating innovation...

BBC“White is positively revelling in the role of the wronged lover...” While this isn't a major musical reinvention, it certainly develops his trademark synthesis of stripped-back garage-rock and Americana. Despite his guitar God reputation, White – ever the contrarian – relegates his axe to a supporting role...

The A.V. Club“Blunderbuss is polished without feeling picked apart or picked over...” The music White has written for Blunderbuss is in line, more or less, with what’s expected of him: There are nods to classic blues, R&B, and folk, but it’s essentially a classicist rock record that’s just straightforward enough...

MusicOMH“The most obviously personal set of songs Jack White has yet released...” Blunderbuss is a hell of a thing. Lovelorn, honest, poignant and emotional in the best way imaginable. With such a prodigious work rate it's possible to imagine that, at some point, we'll discover the end of Mr White's talents...

Pitchfork“Blunderbuss is filled with White's own disenchantment...” Within White's oeuvre, Blunderbuss hangs in a kind of limbo-- it's closer to earth than his fantastic White Stripes yet further away than the sometimes-pedestrian Raconteurs or Dead Weather. It's got some of his best pure songwriting yet...

Guardian“Yet another reliably great outing, full of intriguing plot developments...” White may be artistically constant, but this recent divorcé's songs are obsessed with inconstancy. He spends the first half of the album dwelling on womankind's perfidy, casting himself as the suffering plaything...

The Telegraph“He weaves together all his influences with a spirit of loose invention...” There is depth, colour and dynamic variety to arrangements that lean on the shuffling, hip-hop inflected drums of the dazzling Carla Azar and fluid, sprightly piano and organ playing of White and the exceptional Brooke Waggoner...