I enjoy all the reprises throughout this album in regards to the riffs and even those blasts of piano. Maybe it's because Jack White's voice always sounds a little bit like a squeaky guy full of marbles (I love it) but I mostly am impressed with the musical themes. It's been in my regular rotation for a week, and I still don't know what he's saying half the time. For some reason, though, I didn't focus much on the lyrics on Lazaretto. But feel free to pick and choose themes to run with.Ĭarolyn Menyes: Definitely going with option B, here.That seems like the obvious choice. Note both male and female pronouns when referencing God, and again, relationship troubles.Obviously I just listened to this album twice and got excitable. The fact that his beloved is now dead makes his cause even tougher to accomplish.ī) The album takes place in a duotheist universe where Jack and Meg White are deities both dueling and friendly, somewhat Norse in nature. This is of course followed by his own suicide, hence the tales being related by his specter (note all the ghost references).
Ryan Book: To open this week's edition of Junk Mail, featuring Jack White's newest release Lazaretto, I'll offer two conceptual theories about the album's meaning, in order of likelihood:Ī) Jack White is a sympathetic/pathetic character who kills his lover out of petty jealousy and/or desperation out of his inability to impress himself upon her. This week: Ryan Book, Kyle Dowling, Joey DeGroot, Caitlin Carter and Carolyn Menyes email back and forth about Jack White's Lazaretto. Junk Mail is these millenials' attempt to discuss and review the week's hottest album releases. ft, which makes having face-to-face conversations totally impossible. Music Times writers share an office area of roughly 45 sq.
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