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8.0
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FasterLouder
They have comprehensively dispelled any accusations of The Dead Weather being a side project dalliance
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8.0
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Spin
Sea of Cowards is more thunderously experimental -- all sludgy bass and thick arena riffs, uptempo and cocky
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8.0
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NME
The record The Dead Weather should have come out with first, casting them firmly as a real band
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8.0
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Q
Neither the rock'n'roll art of the Stripes nor The Raconteurs' boys-only blues club but a delightfully different gang of fuzzy funk rapscallions. Print edition only
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8.0
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Daily Telegraph
Powered by White on surprisingly funky drums, their second album inside 12 months has a murky, retro-organ swing all of its own
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8.0
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The Scotsman
The Dead Weather have hightailed it to their next assignation, leaving only a cloud of dust in their wake
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8.0
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Scotland on Sunday
His bond with Alison Mosshart seems to grow stronger as the record goes on, so much so that it seems increasingly pointless for her to go back to The Kills.
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8.0
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Eye Weekly
At their deadliest when White and Mosshart square off on the mic, their howl-and-response antagonism transforming “Die By The Drop” into a sludge-metal version of The War of the Roses
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8.0
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Drowned In Sound
They could have the White Stripes whiners wondering whether White now favours the Weather over the (ex) wife...
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8.0
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Spin
All sludgy bass and thick arena riffs, uptempo and cocky, as White and Mosshart slap at each other with a sinister intensity.
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7.8
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Beats Per Minute
Another solid entry in Jack White’s body of work, and shows clear growth from the Dead Weather’s debut Horehound
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7.8
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Pitchfork
It's a heavy, snarly, physical rock album, and it feels like the work of people so secure in their ass-kicking abilities that they don't have to sweat the details
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7.0
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PopMatters
Jack White and the Dead Weather always sound like they have something up their collective sleeve. Thank God (and the Devil) they do
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7.0
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The Observer
The impression of jam filler still lingers over a few of the other songs. But Sea of Cowards finds the Dead Weather dangerously improved
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7.0
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The Fly
It may not re-write the rule book, but maybe that’s only because White created it in the first place
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7.0
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Rave Magazine
The songs on display here aren’t the crown jewels of anyone’s oeuvre
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7.0
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The Line Of Best Fit
A much more cohesive effort than its predecessor, and even though it lacks the shock value and flat out surprise of their initial offering, it more than makes up for it with an added intensity and inventiveness
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7.0
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Rolling Stone
There are more single-worthy tunes on White's records with the Raconteurs; in the White Stripes, he prefers his blues with limits. But with this band, White lets himself go over the top
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6.0
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Evening Standard
Sea of Cowards doesn't sound like the side-project of a man who's stretching himself too thin
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6.0
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Blurt
It's not a perfect recording, with its religious connotations falling flat on tracks like "Old Mary." But congrats for making me pull out those old Drag City Trux CDs
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6.0
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The Times
Like the valves of the analogue studios White so resolutely favours, the Dead Weather haven’t finished warming up
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6.0
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Uncut
Caught between two camps: what it contains is neither major, nor indie, simply enjoyable minor
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6.0
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Mojo
The mood is authentically heavy but the impact is strangely light. Print edition only
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The Irish Times
It all starts to feel a little like rock’n’roll drudgery, but a good blast of this should nicely clean the musical palate
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6.0
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Independent on Sunday
Synths are prominent in Dead Weather's dirty blues-funk sound, which would be more enjoyable without Mosshart's fifth-rate-Joplin growling
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4.0
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musicOMH
Rather like Horehound, this second album works in flashes, but listening to it all the way through proves to be something of a labour
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4.0
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The Independent
The opener "Blue Blood Blues" is far and away the best thing here... but thereafter things deteriorate rapidly
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4.0
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4.0 |
The Guardian
There are thrilling moments... But then another song, like Gasoline, that sounds like Iron Butterfly rolls into sight, and the heart sinks
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4.0
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State
Sea Of Cowards sounds like it was jammed out by the band while the tape was rolling
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