Flying in from unexpected angles, Jack White’s albums this decade so far have proved him to be as creatively fidgety as ever. Following his 2022-released diptych Fear of the Dawn and Entering Heaven Alive – the first sonically outré futuristic rock, the latter an acoustic-leaning album that wandered through country, folk and even jazz – there came the stunning stylistic consolidation of 2024’s No Name. Rather than be tempted to retrace the template of the latter, White’s thoughts have already moved on.
A certain playfulness, however, remains in terms of White’s pre-release teasing of Frozen Charlotte. While white label copies of No Name were furtively slipped into the bags of shoppers at the Third Man Records stores in London,…

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