Boarding House Reach.

Tracklist 01 Connected by Love 02 Why Walk a Dog? 03 Corporation 04 Abulia and Akrasia 05 Hypermisophoniac 06 Ice Station Zebra 07 Over and Over and Over 08 Everything You've Ever Learned 09 Respect Commander 10 Ezmerelda Steals the Show 11 Get.

Boarding House Reach is a long, bewildering slog studded with these moments, which seem to be directly antagonizing you. Deep in the eccentric-hermit stage of his career, with his own successful label and a devoted clutch of fans who will come to see his concerts until their children are in college, White is now free to record and release whatever he pleases.

BOARDING HOUSE REACH is the new solo album from Jack White, and is a testament to the breadth of the artist's creative power and his bold artistic ambition. This new material finds Jack White expanding his musical palate with perhaps his most ambitious work thus far, a collection of songs that are simultaneously timeless and modern.

Jack White's "Boarding House Reach" is a funhouse, mixing up prog-rock, poetry, trip-hop, retro funk, and his signature hard rock riffing. No one is likely to accuse Boarding House Reach of being Jack White’s best album, but it’s subject to arraignment on charges of being his giddiest, most experimental and most garrulously fun. He’s set aside nearly all of the acoustic Americana touches that flitted through his previous album, 2014’s Lazaretto, opting for an anything-goes grab bag of funk, prog rock, poetry, trip-hop, goofy sermonizing and - not to abandon all registered trademarks - vocal shrieking and guitar shredding

Comes in a tip-on sleeve with a 12" x 24" insert with album lyrics. Record comes in a die-cut black paper poly sleeve. Sticker on shrink wrap on the front cover. This album has nine pressing variations. Track B11 plays different spoken words on each, depending on the etching.

RED ALERT EVERYBODY: Jack White is having his mid-life crisis. The 42-year-old pale rocker is starting to become an old man. Gone are the days of his bright red shirts shaking his flailing hair around with plastic guitars nobody’s heard of. He can’t even be a hipster anymore wearing old suits with fedoras onstage, that’s just typical attire for a man his age now. His pining for old technology, music and taste has finally caught up with him, so you’d think he’d be relaxing comfortably settling into his golden years as a 21st century rock legend. It’s unclear as to whether or not White expected some kind of clarity, but it seems he’s as lost in the haze of the 2010s as the rest of us. That’s crystal clear by the album cover alone of Boarding House Reach, White’s third solo album and first in four years. While White may or may not be the androgynous-looking face on the cover, said subject is swathed in a haze of cloud covering its head. Its ears are blocked off and only a single strand of black hair hanging down, with one eyebrow cocked up in interest and confusion.

Jack White claims his third No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as the rocker’s third solo studio effort, Boarding House Reach, opens atop the tally. The set - which was released on March 23 via Third Man/Columbia Records - earned 124,000 equivalent album units in the week ending March 29, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 121,000 were in traditional album sales - the largest sales week for a rock album in 2018. The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the . based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent.

Boarding House Reach’ is a wilfully weird patchwork of New Orleans jazz, rabble-rousing testifying gospel, squelchy chip-tune funk, gameshow jingles, early Bronx hip-hop and the occasional sound of a microwave malfunctioning. Think Tom Waits meets the Beastie Boys and you’re kind of getting there.

As critically venerated a figure as Jack White is in the landscape of modern rock, it’s been a surprisingly long time since his music has generated as much public interest as his tireless self-promotional efforts as a specialty vinyl huckster, record-label mogul, and ranting Luddite. But even as White continues to set the industry abuzz without having to pick up a guitar-his recent decision to ban cellphones on his upcoming tour has predictably rankled many and overjoyed others-his third solo album, Boarding House Reach, is his first to play like a major career statement. A postmodern assault. As Boarding House Reach proves, that’s certainly no guarantor of quality, but at least it means the album is never boring.