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9.0
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9.0 |
American Songwriter
The vibrant, caffeinated production and pulsating sonics help these performances explode with dollops of the frazzled charm, roaring intensity, and sheer musicality we expect from a Jack White project
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9.0
129302
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DIY
Ferociously heavy, wonderfully weird
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9.0
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9.0 |
PopMatters
Fear of the Dawn is an intense aural barrage of rock from start to finish and may very well be Jack White’s finest solo output to date
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8.5
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8.5 |
Under The Radar
Is this Jack White’s best album? With De Stiji and White Blood Cells out there, that’s a really tough sell, especially for something as off the wall as this. But it is his most interesting
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Arts Desk
Abandonment and outrage feed these hungry songs
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8.0
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All Music
Fear of the Dawn isn't often a pleasant listen, but it wasn't meant to be: it's a dark adventure, an album designed to provoke and stoke fears, not to soothe them
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8.0
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The Observer
The Nashville-based impresario doubles down on his core creative tenets for an album that’s like nothing he’s done before
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8.0
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Spill Magazine
Winding things up with “Shedding my Velvet”, White brings in the spooky, slow vibes as he sings about shedding an alter-ego for one’s real self. Just like that, this album, which clocks in around the 40-mins mark, is done in all its oddly brilliant glory
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8.0
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Exclaim
White has delivered his best release since 2012's Blunderbuss, and one of the most consistently exciting albums in his 25-year-career
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8.0
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Mojo
The most focused and exciting White Solo record yet, a precision-tooled digital reconfiguration of his rock bona fides. Print edition only
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8.0
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Northern Transmissions
All in, Fear of the Dawn album is not easy. But uneasy does not mean unpleasant. If you might keep in mind that it covers a lot of ground to see how far it can go in a short period of time, as is standard with Jack White, you'll enjoy it
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8.0
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The FT
The musician’s sonic experiments have paid off in a nocturnal-set album full of screaming guitars and distorted vocals
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7.8
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7.8 |
Spectrum Culture
Taken as discrete pieces, each songs provides its own twisted pleasure, but over the course of the album they congeal into an idiosyncratic expression of jittery anxiety
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7.0
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7.0 |
Clash
Packed with nervous energy, its haphazard dash to the finish line is nothing if not fascinating
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7.0
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Slant Magazine
Much of Jack White’s Fear of the Dawn finds the musician acting as a sort of mad scientist
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7.0
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musicOMH
Breaks out the riffs and impressionistic songwriting for a distinctive display of bluesy rock that’s sometimes distinctive to a fault
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7.0
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No Ripcord
There's a fluidity and looseness to White's approach on Fear of the Dawn, giving the impression he's having a good time kicking it with his buds in his garage
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7.0
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7.0 |
Albumism
Jack White’s apotheosis may be in the past, but a decade on from the launch of his solo career, he’s still capable of a stirring forty minutes
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6.5
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6.5 |
Paste Magazine
Massive guitars don’t leave a lot of room for nuance on his latest
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6.5
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Pitchfork
On his first of two solo albums planned for this year, Jack White earns his eccentricity. An illogical fusion of blues-rock and carnival prog, this music is genuinely, imaginatively weird
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6.0
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6.0 |
NME
Having only half checked out of 2018 experiment ‘Boarding House Reach’, the former 'Stripe has compromised with an often purposeless follow-up
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5.0
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Rolling Stone
With collaged guitar lines and Cab Calloway samples, the former White Stripe embraces his experimental side for a bizarre listening experience
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4.0
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4.0 |
The Independent
Even White’s usually thrilling experimental moments are tedious here
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