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Dec 16, 2011They play compulsively listenable '60s garage rock draped in black lace and a sneer. Whatever they don't offer in originality, they make up for in commitment.
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Dec 16, 2011Not to give the Belles short shrift (they play with skilled abandon), but the record sounds like White... straight-ahead crunching blues-based guitar hooks that sound as if they were ripped from Zeppelin II, staccato bursts of noise, oceans of feedback, driving back beats and howled vocals.
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Dec 16, 2011This pet project of Jack White uses all the clichés in spades on their self-titled release, The Black Belles.
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Dec 16, 2011The pervading campiness of the music trumps any sort of real emotion that might be hidden underneath that ghostly-white group exterior.