Meg White should have taught him how toOH WAIT. Where living up to supergroup status might be hard for other bands, The Dead Weather makes it look incredibly easy. Album Rating: 3.5u r a fevahh you aint born typical, Talked about Jack White a little too much in beginning in my opinion. ALL I KNOW IS I HATE THAT ADVERT but it hasn't come up in a while so good news It’s loud and in your face with a definite quirk and edge. According to recent interviews with the foursome, there is a Dead Weather follow-up on the way. The Dead Weather. The track introduces us to itself with a simple but intriguing little tune that builds both suspense and anxiety as to where The Dead Weather plan on taking us for the individual track and the album as a whole. "eerie-sounding, swamp-dwelling, venomous debut" This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Licence. i especially like the stability center line. Contact | More of this and soon please. on July 15, 2009, 3 ... and likely the reason The Dead Weather … Discover releases, reviews, credits, songs, and more about The Dead Weather - Horehound at Discogs. Atmosphere says “Thank You” with free EP Leak At Will, David Crosby Gets Backlash Over Dismissive Eddie Van Halen Tweet, SNL Still Isn't Sure How to Satirize Wokeness, Sex Pistols' Johnny Rotten Says He's Voting for Trump in 2020 Election, Jack White Reworks "Ball and Biscuit", Plays Eddie Van Halen Guitar on SNL: Watch, Song of the Week: Stevie Nicks Lends Her Voice to the Fight on "Show Them the Way", TikTok's Fleetwood Mac Skateboarder Gets a Truck Full of Cranberry Juice from Ocean Spray, R.I.P. ‘Treat Me Like Your Mother’ is the first single off of the album and does a good job encapsulating the sound of The Dead Weather. Punchier than ’60 Feet Tall’, the lyrics to ‘Hang You Up From The Heavens’ deal with the uncertainty surrounding a decision to leave someone who isn’t the best choice for them. Released 2009. Her thin voice works for the more ethereal creations of the Kills but here, as she morphs into her alter ego 'Baby Ruthless', her vocal abilities struggle to move beyond that of irritating adolescent yelping against a fearsome backdrop of swamp blues. Expert Reviews for the Newest Albums ... EDM, and More . The venom of the rest of the tracks, however, are diluted from gaucho bonfire to granola bar by Mosshart. The backing vocals in "Treat Me Like Your Mother" are really irritating. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2009 CD release of Horehound on Discogs. Equally. Horehound is the debut studio album by American rock band the Dead Weather.It was released on July 10 in Australia, July 13 in Europe, and July 14, 2009 in North America.The album was recorded at Third Man Studios during a three-week session in January 2009. This is an album that relies heavily on the ability of its singers who treat everyday like Halloween. ‘New Pony’ is an incredible cover of the Bob Dylan original that rocks hard. I once heard that bad artists imitate, while the good ones steal. Discover releases, reviews, credits, songs, and more about The Dead Weather - Horehound at Discogs. On opening track “60 Feet Tall”, Mosshart sings, “You’re so cruel and shameless/But I can’t leave you be/You’ve got the kinda lovin’/I need constantly,” and continues this theme on “Hang You From The Heavens”, where she adds, “I’d like to grab you by the hair/And hang you up from the Heavens,” though she’s just as quick to bite, as is the case with “I Cut Like a Buffalo”, to which she sings with finality, “You know I love like a woman, but I cut like a buffalo.”. This is most definitely The Dead Weather’s case as they truly stole Dylan’s track and made it their own. The word ‘supergroup’ has larger than life connotations, so it’s time to see if The Dead Weather can live up to the promise. It should be. However, with Kills’ vocalist Alison Mosshart shrieking between White’s pummel-before-you-caress beats, Fertita’s do-what’s-necessary-and-look-pretty riffs, and bassist Jack Lawrence’s (Greenhornes, The Raconteurs) I-should-have-been-born-in-1943, steadfastly retro bass lines creates a resurgence of rock’s long-since-dormant heyday…the 70’s. It’s an odd approach, considering the fact that the world’s greatest living guitarist (argue all you want, metalheads) is the band’s drummer, and Queens of the Stone Age keyboardist Dean Fertita takes the helm as head axe-wielder. The aforementioned lyrical smatterings are a testament to that, and likely the reason The Dead Weather rely on the originality of their sound, rather than their familiar discourse. I Cut Like A Buffalo is a stand out track with a sleazy throbbing riff that's meatier than an Argentinean parrella stand. Their unification gives Horehound its voice, and refuses to allow any listeners to ignore their sentiments. It’s nice. The album’s previous tracks tend to batter rather than soothe. Nice review! What wouldn't we give to have heard White and Lawrence give a more carnivorous Dylan track a la Gotta Serve Somebody a going over here? Horehound takes the attitude of rock, the palpable emotion of country and the sound of each of their previous bands to create a powerful sound that has earned them the moniker of supergroup in more ways than one. Shaun Keaveny BBC Radio 6 Music . It’s a squirming, nauseating label no doubt, but so is Horehound, convinced that skuzzed-up guitars and swamp blues roots demand sleaze, humidity, and grime. Horehound is the debut studio album by American rock band the Dead Weather.It was released on July 10 in Australia, July 13 in Europe, and July 14, 2009 in North America.The album was recorded at Third Man Studios during a three-week session in January 2009. This is a good thing, especially for those who’ve grown weary of The White Stripes’ verse-chorus-verse template, or The Raconteurs’ Deep Purple-meets-The Stooges-meets-The Black Crowes howl. makes for an affectingly quiet closer. Dean Fertita of Queens of the Stone Age and Jack Lawrence from White’s 'other', other band The Raconteurs make up a quartet of suitably roguish looking carney demons. So, this is what keeps scaring me on the home page. Find album reviews, stream songs, credits and award information for Horehound - The Dead Weather on AllMusic - 2009 - Expectations for a project featuring members of… An out-of-control church organ lurches between the guitar squelches while White, on a rare excursion onto lead vocals, threatens us repeatedly with the question, ''Is that you choking, or are you just joking?''. Find out more about our use of this data. White … With the next track, ‘Rocking Horse’, the band creates a sultry sound that will have you wanting to sway your hips and scream out ‘Cowabunga.’ It sounds like a bad girl/boy surfer’s theme song and thus it’s the perfect track to blast while you drive through the hot summer air on your way to the beach. Now, sounding like a bunch of frayed and unwashed circus escapees who have set up their own goat hide tent in the corner of a New Orleans graveyard, The Dead Weather is his latest side project, which came into being during some jam sessions following a Raconteurs tour last year. Steve Lamacq BBC Radio 6 Music . Album Rating: 3.5The stream: Why Is Aphex Twin Linking To COVID Conspiracy Videos? Vocals are divided between Mosshart and White throughout, who sound like they were made to duet together, untamed and fierce and clearly egging each other on during recording to see who can sound more deranged and wanton. Submissions |. The Dead Weather, after all, feature that bloke with the huge bulge in his trousers who reanimated the corpses of both blues and rock’n’roll when they were rotting away in a coffin somewhere.