"Everyone" is the latest material from American band Willowz in which they play spontaneous and lively music that combine the visceral and urgent nature of punk and garage with a casual and supposedly candid so Californian attitude. The quartet presents 10 fast songs (mostly shorter than 3 minutes) in which, except for a couple of seventies flavored ballads, they go from obvious allusion to the raw & pure White Stripes garage in pieces like "Repetition" and "You Do ", to The Strokes melodic garage evocation in songs like "Destruction" or "I Know ". So, "Everyone" is not an album that will change rock history but it gives us a bit of fresh music. Fun and enjoyable. Is not that enough?. -CORANNIEIT-
If after listen "Consolers Of The Lonely", The Raconteurs second album, we wondered: Does anyone misses to The White Stripes? After listen "Horehound", the debut album of The Dead Weather, the new superband founded by Jack White (and probably, along with Chickenfoot, one of the few that deserve the adjective these days) which also involved Alison Mosshart, The Kills vocalist, Dean Fertita, Queens Of The Stone Age keyboardist, and Jack Lawrence, from The Greenhornes and The Raconteurs, the question (perhaps a little bit unfair since White is not alternating with a support band nor beginners) that is floating on the air is: Is Jack White a genius of actual rock?. If in "Consolers Of The Lonely" White exploded the opportunity of have the "creative counterweight" of Brendan Benson and to play with a real band, with enough solvency to make more elaborated music, in "Horehound" what he gets is boost and enhance the garage sound of The White Stripes taking it to another level and give it some sophistication without lose a bit of his powerful and visceral nature. 11 pieces of hard and volatile music, in which White let Fertita take charge on the 6 strings (with a style very similar to White but less frenetic), and except for "Will There Be Enough Water?", a dark blues that closes the album, he abstain from play guitar taking charge, along with Lawrence, of the drums and share vocals with Mosshart and her raspy voice. "Horehound" is an extraordinary album, 43 minutes of austere elements music but with a robust and overpower sound, as garage as bluesy. Is Jack White a genius of actual rock? The White Stripes, The Raconteurs and now The Dead Weather seem to give us the answer: absolutely yes. -CORANNIEIT-
The Dead Weather, Horehound Third Man Records, 2009
