White Stripes, The - White Blood Cells (180 Gram, Black Vinyl) w/ Insert)

White Stripes, The - White Blood Cells (180 Gram, Black Vinyl) w/ Insert)For this one, Jack and Meg decamped to Memphis to record at the legendary Easley McCain Studio and walked away with a bonafide classic. Unique for a White Stripes album, as it contains no covers, no guest musicians, no blues and no guitar solos, this album would be most of the world's introduction to the band. While the video for "Fell In Love With A Girl" could've single handedly raised the price of LEGO stock the other jams on here are momentous,

These performances have been remastered for vinyl by Dave Gardner at Infrasonic Mastering

1 My Sisters and Brothers [Live]

The fourteen minute title-track opener enters like a morning sunrise over a calm sea before ramping up into ethereal heaviness like the richly textured waves of a sudden ocean storm

17 Glimpses

During the early ’80s

Aleph Omega

this work was complete

These formative records showed the Pixies to be an alien breed

aged crooning one of late

honing the loops

the melancholy and bittersweet beauty that's been with her throughout Winter's existence now pushed to center stage

were both AM and FM hits