White Blood Cells
- The White Stripes
- Band Name: The White Stripes
- Record Label: Sympathy For The Record Industry / V2
- Release Date: Jul 3, 2001
- Summary: The Detroit-based "brother-sister" (or, if you don't believe everything you read, ex husband and wife) indie duo of Jack (guitars) and Meg (drums) White continue their stripped-down sound on this, their third full-length.
- Record Label: Sympathy For The Record Industry / V2
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 15 out of 16
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Mixed: 1 out of 16
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Negative: 0 out of 16
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100This fine, fine album (quite possibly the finest of year) signals that the White Stripes have arrived. Hype or no hype, this is a band of significance...
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80Their sonic ingenuity enhances even the most basic garage-rock templates. [Sep 2001, p.122]
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80Few other performers have electrified country blues to such plaintive and non-parodic effect since the heyday of Led Zeppelin. [Sep 2001, p.100]
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Their worst album so far.... Too much of the album ("Expecting," "Aluminum," "I Can't Wait," "I Can Learn") wallows in an odd, crusty hard-rock haze.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 53 out of 61
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Mixed: 3 out of 61
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Negative: 5 out of 61
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