★★★★★
In the micro attention span age, artists frontload albums; Jack White (White Stripe, Raconteur, Dead Weatherer) holds the concept of the album dear, and his debut as a solo artist - something of a surprise - is perfectly suited to two sides of vinyl. Trouble is: that doesn't make for a balanced listen. What develops, in an old-fashioned way, from track one to 13, is an album so very much of two halves that you return again and again to the second one...
- recordcollectormag.com
2013-04-02
★★★★★
Summary: Of course it can't touch The White Stripes, but this is amazing because it shows just how strong of a role Jack himself was in making The White Stripes as amazing as they where to begin with. 3 of 3 thought this review was well written Jack White has always been known for being one of the top most ambitiously talented guitarists of the 21st Century, in that he has the integrity to make him playing interesting, and the skill to back up his ideas...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2012-07-19
★★★★★
Release Date: April 24th, 2012 Dare I say it, but apparently Jack White has been holding back from us. The excessively over productive musician, who has been churning out music since 1997 with such bands as The White Stripes, The Raconteurs and The Dead Weather, has recently admitted that he feels that working as part of a band set up is quite restricting. So in the respect, Jack White's first ever solo album must surely be mind blowing? Well, you're not half wrong...
- absolutepunk.net
2012-05-21
★★★★★
It can be difficult to gain a balanced perspective on an album after reading a single summary of the music. Bias can tilt a review, as can personal taste, history and just about everything else that is unique to the person writing it. So in an effort to offer an expanded perspective in such a medium, here are three reactions, three impressions, three Takes on Blunderbuss by Jack White...
- www.reviler.org
2012-05-17
★★★★★
"I want love to grab my fingers gently, slam them in the doorway, put my face into the ground," declares Jack White in a butterscotch croon. For a guy defined by stark iconography, media-mystifying biographies, and liquid-hot guitars, his proper solo debut, Blunderbuss, finds the Detroit godhead and onetime savior of rock & roll entering singer-songwriter comedown. For the first time in his life, Jack White's recording songs about John Anthony Gillis...
- www.austinchronicle.com
2012-05-14
★★★★★
Jack White never intended to make a solo album. However, after Wu-Tang Clan abbot The RZA was forced to cancel a session he had scheduled at Third Man to record a 45 as part of the label's acclaimed Blue Series, White decided to keep the musicians he hired on the clock to lay down something for himself. By that day's end, he had three songs written, and after a few more times of keeping the tape rolling after hours, the guitarist had a total of 25 demos worked up...
- www.glidemagazine.com
2012-05-14
★★★★★
Third Man/Columbia Whatever twisted forces are hounding Jack White to write lines like "I want love to murder my own mother and take her off to somewhere like Hell or up above," the harsh truth is that we need more of them. "Love Interruption" is just one of several moments on Blunderbuss, White's first solo album since the demise of The White Stripes, that reduces rock and roll to what it's supposed to be: an angry, rebellious exercise in largely narcissistic self-expression...
- www.relix.com
2012-05-07
★★★★★
Jack White's first solo album Blunderbuss systematically presents his personal influences and thematic observations, which - perhaps most importantly - allows us to contextualize his back catalogue. At first I thought Jack White was wearing a women's bonnet in the monochromatic, film-like cover image of his debut solo album, Blunderbuss. Then I realized it's a vulture: yep, Jack White is wearing a bird on his head...
- www.undertheradar.co.nz
2012-05-03
★★★★★
Jack White does not stop. The musician/actor/label head/designer/astronaut (I'm just assuming on the last one) has kept up a steady pace in the last decade, and nothing, not even the dissolution of his main gig with the White Stripes, can slow him down. Yet for all his output, Blunderbuss, his first solo album, to the extent that it bears his stage name, finds him in a rather safe, reflective mode...
- www.punknews.org
2012-04-30
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