Ironic, really, given that Spencer's reanimated blues shtick was supposedly rendered obsolete by White's first band.
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#THE DEAD WEATHER SEA OF COWARDS ZIP FREE#
I'm Mad rather soberingly suggests Jon Spencer turned evil dentist in an underground lair. Listen free to The Dead Weather Sea of Cowards: Live at Third Man Records. Not the most natural of links, perhaps, but one they return to throughout and to great effect.ĭie by the Drop is all dark sparks and skulduggery between White and Mosshart along with the malignant synths of The Difference Between Us it's as close as The Dead Weather comes to pop (read: not that close). The funk influence is even more marked on the Mosshart-sung Hustle and Cuss, a sultry strut that clings like sweaty shirt fabric and sounds a lot like early Funkadelic. Lyrically, it finds Detroit's pastiest son spitting devious rhymes as bone-shakingly good as "shake your hips like battleships / all the white girls trip when I sing that Sunday service". Musically it sounds like a funky twist on the staccato end of the Stripes' songbook, squelchy guitar accents indulging the taste for kitschy sound effects that has crept into White's latter-day output. Album review: The Dead Weather's 'Sea of Cowards' 7:14 pm In the Dead Weather's world, love has nothing to do with flowers and chocolates it's all about grenades and flak jackets. What's even stranger is that they appear to have succeeded, in spite of the fact 80% of the record proceeds from a fairly lumpen blues template which at first glance would seem to suggest a continued dearth of inspiration.īlue Blood Blues is the first clue that the bar's been raised here. It was, in truth, some of the ugliest music The White Stripes frontman had ever put his name to.īut maybe this gloomiest of supergroups just needed a little longer stewing in the gumbo pot of their southern gothic influences, because Sea of Cowards works hard to dispel those not-unjustified notions of The Dead Weather being Jack White's third-best band. Cobbled together in little more than two weeks on the back of jamming sessions with rock star chums Alison ' The Kills' Mosshart, Queens of the Stone Age's Dean Fertita and Jack Lawrence of White's own Raconteurs, Horehound was a largely unlovable affair that shaded White's ever-present Zep-ophilia with hints of voodoo hokum and - gasp - nu-metal. The Dead Weather's first album offered ammunition aplenty for those disinclined to doff their caps to Jack White's alleged genius. The Dead Weather is an American rock supergroup, formed in Nashville, Tennessee in 2009.Composed of Alison Mosshart (of The Kills and Discount), Jack White (of The White Stripes and The Raconteurs), Dean Fertita (of Queens of the Stone Age) and Jack Lawrence (of The Raconteurs, The Greenhornes and City and Colour), The Dead Weather debuted at the opening of Third Man Records' Nashville.
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