New White Stripes Album: Icky Thump

According to NME the world’s number one source for Pete Doherty rehab updates and angry Gallagher Brothers’ rants, the White Stripes have finished recording and mastering their newest album which goes by the name of:

ICKY BUMP

According to The White Stripes, some song titles include:

Catch Hell Blues
Little Cream Soda
Monkeys Have It Easy (discarded)
Rag And Bone
Clicky Bump (retitled into something pleasant)
Blue Orchid (relocated to previous album)
You Don’t Know What Love is (You Just Do As You’re Told)

Which makes sense, since the single Blue Orchid didn’t really match the sentiment of the last album, even though I loved both the single and the album. The White Stripes apparently spent nearly 3 weeks in the studio, making this their longest effort to date! Also, note I said studio and not Jack White’s living room, which was recently sold. Now their a Nashville band instead of a Detroit band, which should be a good thing for Us and Them a like. Word on the street is, Jack White has been using some new studio tricks.

More about Them: If you visit Their site, the extremely well designed whitestripes.com, you can read Their fake press release by Kitayna Ireyna Tatanya Kerenska Alisof from the MOSCOW BUGLE (known in some circles as Three Quid), and watch Jack record vocals on a new song while a skeleton dances behind him and 80s keyboard plays to prevent “song poaching”, though I wouldn’t take that for granted having been a White Stripes fan for a while, you start to get a sense of… their sense… of humor. Having spent several hours attempting to play White Stripes songs at home, I’m pretty stoked. Here’s a video from Ustube. It’s my favorite White Stripes video.