I’ve listened to the new White Stripes album, “Elephant,” about four times now.
Allow me some NME-like hyperbole, will you?
2003 is the year of the White Stripes!
This is the album that’s going to take this renaissance of rock to the next level. It’s great. It’s slick, it’s hard, it’s sexy. You’ll love it, your girlfriend will love it, and anyone who comes from a 20,000,000 mile radius of it will instantly fall in love.
Sorry, Jack and Meg, I know you didn’t want this album to leak into the hands of a hyperfan like me, but you can’t keep a good geek down, you know?
The band has taken the best elements of their past three full lengths and created the real effin’ deal. The single, “Seven Nation Army” will be blasting out of cars and iPods all summer long. Trust me.