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9.0
138367
9.0 |
Uncut
On No Name, he’s done something special on his own terms, delighted and surprised his audience, and provided one of the great rock moments of the year. Print edition only
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9.0
138424
9.0 |
Far Out
It’s Jack White in a signature vein that timelessly revitalises the medium of the blues with each stabbing chord—rendering it pretty damn close to the masterpiece the world needs right now
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9.0
138448
9.0 |
musicOMH
His sixth solo work is wonderful, magical, truthful and the most consistently surprising rock album of the year
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9.0
138455
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Paste Magazine
The guitar auteur and labelhead’s sixth studio album is not only one of the best course-corrections in recent memory, but it's a back-to-basics lesson in excellence from the one guy you ought to trust in making a top-to-bottom rock ‘n’ roll classic
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9.0
138503
9.0 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
It towers over the vast majority of contemporary rock music with its controlled tunefulness while ever maintaining the effortless modern appeal of Jack White himself
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9.0
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9.0 |
Albumism
No Name does what The White Stripes’ White Blood Cells (2001) did for rock over twenty years ago—it gives the genre a hard kick in the butt and makes us take notice, once again, of a true rock star
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8.5
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Under The Radar
The sound of an artist let loose in the funhouse, doing what he does best. It’s a low stakes record that serves as something of a reset for White; it also reconnects him with his primal muse
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8.5
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8.5 |
Northern Transmissions
No Name proves to fans who’ve felt alienated by his increasingly experimental albums of the last six years that he’s never lost it; he just does what he wants, when he wants, and he’ll create a whole lot of word-of-mouth buzz when he does it
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8.0
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Mojo
No Name is a much more nuanced record, more of a piece with White’s entire varied discography, than it might have first appeared. Print edition only
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8.0
138432
8.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
While a full band surrounds him, all that functionally matters here is White. The tracks live and die by his presence, not unsurprising given that we’re dealing with a uniquely possessive auteur
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8.0
138359
8.0 |
The Guardian
Handed out to customers at his record shop in an unmarked sleeve, White’s latest has been bootlegged online. Every one of his fans needs to track down this uncut gem
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8.0
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Rolling Stone
The album is some of the best, most lively garage-blues crunch he’s given us in many many moons, with just the right amount of eccentricity thrown in
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8.0
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The FT
The album looks back at his alternative-rock origins with revving riffs and distorted guitars
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8.0
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8.0 |
All Music
Even without its publicity stunt release, No Name would doubtless clicked with an awful lot of Jack White's fans, and it's the sort of idiosyncratic but lean and mean rock album he's needed to make for a while
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8.0
138362
8.0 |
Clash
A mad scientist who is incapable of being boring, Jack White has been rallying the troops and sticking it to the man for years. His latest album, it is safe to say, might just be his campaign’s biggest win thus far
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8.0
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8.0 |
NME
Taking a typically old-school approach, the indie icon tips his cap to the past while still sounding like he's itching to get out of his skin
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7.6
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7.6 |
Pitchfork
The old Jack White suddenly steps out from behind the curtain with 42 minutes of amp-busting blues punk. Even the last couple of White Stripes albums weren’t this stacked
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7.0
138361
7.0 |
Exclaim
It's exciting to hear White fully return to the sound he's best known for, with its no-nonsense execution heightened by the thrilling manner in which it was released
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