Sunday, April 06, 2003
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Why, and in what precise way, do the White Stripes suck so badly? Jon Pareles explains (though he seems unaware of another factor: the fact that Robert Plant's voice, and therefore also the voice of anyone trying to sound like Robert Plant, is the most grating sound in the universe):Yet it's all primitivist, not primitive. The White Stripes' problem is that the effort and allusions show; all the self-consciousness is still on the surface. And more often than not, Jack's skills end up sounding like stunts rather than songs. What comes across are the gestures — the sudden chomp of a distortion pedal, the outlandish vocal vibrato — rather than the feelings they once signaled. The heat of the old styles becomes a badge of cool. . Article here
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(The Return of) Ignatz, by Sam Heldman