Jack White: “Love Interruption”
Now that Jack White has finally ran out of other people to work with, the vinyl traditionalist is free to strip it all back and put out a project under his own name. But that doesn’t mean he’s reinventing himself. Lyrically, his debut solo single, “Love Interruption,” exudes the same awkwardly macabre bitterness that White often turned to in both the White Stripes and the Dead Weather. “I want love to stick a knife inside me and twist it all around/ I want love to murder my own mother and take her off to somewhere like hell or up above,” White sings in a smoky quaver that betrays the song’s Wurlitzer flourishes and relaxed tempo.
Taken from the forthcoming Blunderbuss album which comes out in April, “Love Interruption” just may be the most morbid start to a solo career ever. But it is a compelling first step, one that is certainly more measured than anything he’s done in his more musically raucous partnerships with Alison Mosshart and Brendan Benson. Instead, this tune is a downbeat reminder that no one foregrounds the gothic element of the blues more uncompromisingly than White.
- Mike Tony, Popscene with Mike Tony (Saturdays from 10am-noon @ WQHS.org)
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