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Classic Rock MagazineMay 27, 2022On Fear Of The Dawn his foot spends plenty of time flat on the fuzz pedal. [Jul 2022, p.80]
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UncutApr 27, 2022Fear Of The Dawn succeeds better when it surprises. [Jun 2022, p.34]
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Apr 15, 2022There is little filter on the creativity here as White’s legacy allows him to explore and indulge odd ideas, but it could do with some productive channelling. Hence Fear Of The Dawn ends up a partially enjoyable but partially frustrating listen.
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Apr 14, 2022An entire album of similar songs might have felt like a retread. But on Fear of the Dawn, they’re rewards for experiencing something very rare: a long-established artist intent on pushing boundaries further than he ever has before.
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Apr 12, 2022There's a fluidity and looseness to White's approach on Fear of the Dawn, giving the impression he's having a good time kicking it with his buds in his garage.
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Apr 11, 2022The result crackles with a wired energy that doubles down on his core creative tenets, while still sounding like no other White record released previously.
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Apr 8, 2022“Fear of the Dawn” benefits from being so single-mindedly devoted to capturing a stream of consciousness that’s moving about as fast as the Colorado River, and would generate just about as much electricity, dammed up. ... He’s finally made an album every bit as hysterical as that trademark howl.
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Apr 8, 2022White briskly blows through each idea and wraps up the album in a tight 40 minutes.
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Apr 8, 2022This is rock music from the year 2064. And it’s absolutely glorious. There’s an infectious energy that permeates throughout the album, as he transitions frantically from musical passage to musical passage.
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Apr 8, 2022Fear of the Dawn isn't often a pleasant listen, but it wasn't meant to be: it's a dark adventure, an album designed to provoke and stoke fears, not to soothe them.
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Apr 8, 2022Fear of the Dawn reveals a mature White who is not only at the height of this prowess as a guitarist whose effects have formed a unique signature he both hones and transgresses. The album finds him reaching new heights as a producer and creative experimenter.
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Apr 7, 2022An intriguing if not fully formed experiment, ‘Fear Of The Dawn’ is a defiantly un-Jack White statement, transgressing his role as a traditionalist in favour of something less logical. Packed with nervous energy, its haphazard dash to the finish line is nothing if not fascinating.
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Apr 7, 2022Fear of the Dawn is fucking weird: not obligatorily weird or try-hard weird, but genuinely, imaginatively weird.
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Apr 6, 2022The vibrant, caffeinated production and pulsating sonics help these performances explode with dollops of the frazzled charm, roaring intensity, and sheer musicality we expect from a Jack White project. White, a faithful baseball fan, has knocked another one out of the park.
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Apr 6, 2022‘Fear of The Dawn’ is very much like the kind of party where you’re hoping daylight stays away for some time yet.
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Apr 6, 2022Though it has its moments, Fear of the Dawn isn’t quite wild enough.
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MojoApr 4, 2022The most focused and exciting White Solo record yet, a precision-tooled digital reconfiguration of his rock bona fides. [May 2022, p.89]
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Apr 4, 2022A woolly wall of sound from the chugging blown-out opener "Taking Me Back" to the spiraling title track. [Apr 2022, p.106]
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Apr 4, 2022By splitting his 2022 albums into two distinct projects and saving his quieter material for Entering Heaven Alive, White has delivered his best release since 2012's Blunderbuss, and one of the most consistently exciting albums in his 25-year-career.
Awards & Rankings
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Positive: 30 out of 34
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Mixed: 3 out of 34
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Negative: 1 out of 34
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Apr 8, 2022Jack White never ceases to amaze me. An excellent album from start to finish
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