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The Rolling Stones  Foreign Tongues

The material offers pearls of greatness amid a chunk of banal blues retreads we’ve all heard before Far Out

Jack White  Frozen Charlotte

Frozen Charlotte is a classic rock album in an era where rock no longer packs the radio waves Northern Transmissions

The Rolling Stones  Foreign Tongues

Though lacking a standout smash, the legends’ 25th studio set is stuffed with late-career gems NME

Jack White  Frozen Charlotte

Frozen Charlotte is very much a guitar record – and one that is less inviting, at least on initial plays, than No Name. Stick with it, though, and it reveals its many charms and wonders. Print edition only Mojo

Jack White  Frozen Charlotte

The Detroit-bred, Nashville-based rock guru maintains the steady footing he established on 2024’s No Name for another batch of blues-punk barn-burners Paste Magazine

The Rolling Stones  Foreign Tongues

The band’s third album of original material this century feels impulsive and haphazard, as if they had a bunch of leftover material from the Hackney Diamonds sessions that they didn’t know what to do with Paste Magazine

The Rolling Stones  Foreign Tongues

It’s almost unbelievable how a band can still be making vibrant rock’n’roll albums over 60 years after their first. Yet Foreign Tongues can stand tall among The Rolling Stones‘ most compellingly evocative works; once you get used to Andrew Watt’s polished production dropkicking the band into modern times while they tangibly revisit their seven-decade past Record Collector

The Rolling Stones  Foreign Tongues

A bloated, though often fun, mixed bag Consequence Of Sound

Jack White  Frozen Charlotte

These 13 cuts may not stand among his defining achievements, but neither do they break a spell that has endured for nearly four decades Clash

Jack White  Frozen Charlotte

Jack White still sings like a tomcat, and his caterwauling guitar keeps up his career-long argument for songs that chuck in every kitchen sink to hand The Irish Times

Jack White  Frozen Charlotte

This record really is stellar stuff Hot Press

Jack White  Frozen Charlotte

A solid record, albeit uninspired Far Out

Jack White  Frozen Charlotte

Following the superb No Name, White continues his fan service with stripped back songs and nasty, anarchic riffs – though it all ends up feeling a little samey The Guardian

Jack White  Frozen Charlotte

Delivers night-terror boogie and fleet-fingered car-crash jams with the technical proficiency and liturgical intensity of a rock’n’roll lifer Pitchfork

Jack White  Frozen Charlotte

Offers up his most consistently bluesy offering since the early 2000s. Frozen Charlotte is a continuation of the streamlined rippers of 2024's No Name, although there's nothing here as straightforwardly catchy as "That's How I'm Feeling" Exclaim