Jack White Blunderbuss

4.5 stars out of 5 -- "[It's] his most expansive and masterful record since the White Stripes' 2003 classic, ELEPHANT, full of brilliant songs about how love tears your body and soul to shreds..."
"[T]he nostalgia for simpler times works here....He's recruited pedal-steel players, harpists, and violinists for a set so vintage in style -- with nods to '70s country, '60s garage, classic rock, and the blues -- that it's sequenced to play on vinyl." -- Grade: B
"[I]t's a surly, spiky piece of work....Love, clearly, is the brooding heart of the matter here, with protagonists trapped in a co-dependency of dark desire."
Billboard (p.28) - "BLUNDERBUSS is familiar enough to please the faithful, adventurous enough to forge a new path forward and satisfying enough to make fans realize anew just how much White has been missed."
4 stars out of 5 -- "[A] concentrated shot of charisma, undiluted and intoxicating."
5 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he musical invention remains consistent throughout and gradually we emerge out of the thorny briar thicket of broken hearts and busted noses."