Jack White Lazaretto (180 Gram Vinyl, Digital Download Card) home good Nick DiDia

Nick DiDia

"White Christmas" grooves like classic Stax -- but she does inhabit them and her band is tight and dexterous

and this eagerness to please means the record is giddy but also overwhelming

"Wasted" sounds like Juicy J did an album for Stones Throw

and his first solo album

Jack White Lazaretto (180 Gram Vinyl, Digital Download Card) home good Nick DiDiaLike "blunderbuss," a "lazaretto" is an ancient reference that means little in the modern world, a fact that does not escape Jack White, a musician who specializes in blurring lines between past and present. Contrary to his carefully cultivated persona as a raider of lost Americana, White never, ever was a purist: he thrived upon seizing the precise moment when accepted definitions lose all meanings and turn into something new. This tension surfaces