The first single from the forthcoming White Stripes album “Icky Thump” lives up to its moniker’s corporeal nastiness, driven by thumping kick and bass topped with ecstatic keyboard squelches and squeals. Structurally “Icky Thump” is a well-layered mess of herky-jerky stopping and starting, alternating between Jack’s half-spout feverish storytelling and stripped-down stomp box breakdowns. The best part about it is that though tighter and more aware of how they approach their songs, the band hasn’t lost any of the sloppiness of their early material. “Icky Thump” is all about attitude and Jack’s alienated American advice giving, a mix of Spanish slang, English colloquialisms, and Old West iconography, is his sassiest yet. Not to mention that “Icky Thump” features one of Jack’s best guitar solos to date that is all tension and hiccupping silences that is hard not to compare to a Miles Davis ‘Black Beauty’ (Chick Corea) level freakout. I love this track and haven’t been this excited about a White Stripes album in…take that back, I’m always excited about new White Stripes albums.
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