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Icky Thump

The White Stripes have announce their sixth album title, Icky Thump! Here is the cryptic message from their official site.

http://www.whitestripes.com/news/newsExtra.html

"Hello to all the Candy Cane Children in the land,

The White Stripes have completed the recording and mixing of their sixth album. It is entitled:

"Icky Thump"

and is their first album to include a title track, which curiously (and not ironically) has the same words in it's name. Though some residents of northern England might almost recognize the title, the Stripes stress they are spelling it wrong intentionally just for "kicks" and "metaphors", and to avoid a possible lawsuit from the estate of Billy Eckstine.

The record was recorded in Nashville at Blackbird Studio. And word around the sewing circle is that many of your favorite White Stripe type songs may not be your favorite (pronounced favaright) White Stripe type songs for long.

Some song titles include:

Catch Hell Blues
Little Cream Soda
Monkeys Have It Easy (discarded)
Rag and Bone
Clicky Bump (retitled into something pleasant)
Blue Orchid (relocated to previous album)
You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do As You're Told)

It was the longest time the delightful duo have ever spent in the studio, totaling almost three weeks. Jack and Meg were said to have been looking like they were "into it almost". And even Meg herself was quoted while leaving a local Nashville Laundromat saying that the record was, in her best estimate; "finished", "musical in nature" and lastly, though slightly muffled, "good".

The Stripes will be releasing a statement soon saying: "we are doing our best (whatever that is) to release the album as soon as corporately possible. And though we are tired, worn, weary, hungry, cold, and left without an ounce of nutrition amongst ourselves, we are in the midst of planning performance type shows aroundst the world."

Here now is a short film clip of The Stripes working on a thoroughly rough and ghastly early version of a track from the new album entitled "I'm Slowly Turning Into You"... LINKS DON'T WORK ON MY COMPUTER-- PERHAPS THEY WORK ON YOURS?

(the actual music has been replaced with mid eighties sampling keyboard technology to prevent what industry analysts are now calling "song poaching")

By: Kitayana Ireyna Tatanya Kerenska Alisofaa
Reporting for the MOSCOW BUGLE"



from Wikipedia:
"Jack White has confirmed the appearance of bagpipes on the album and stated that people who loved their first album will like this new record. A trumpet/guitar duel is said to take place in one song."

from Mojo Magazine:
"We just finished recording yesterday," beams a proud but pooped Jack White, recuperating in his Nashville home. "Now I can sleep again." It's early February, and for the past three weeks White and drumming sister Meg have been holed up in nearby Blackbird Studio working on the sixth full-length White Stripes album.
"It's the longest we've ever spent in the studio," says White, who also produced. "We really indulged ourselves with that extra week. We were recording 12 hours a day, trying anything that came to mind - some songs are like three different songs we had going that we made into one. It has everything from a song I wrote in 1998, to something we wrote and recorded yesterday.
The album will be called Icky Thump, a title drawn from a Lancastriam colloquialism beloved of White's Mancunian wife Karen Elson ("I changed it to 'Icky' because that's how it sounds when I say it, and I love the weird imagery it suggests," he explains). White describes the album as "really heavy. There's a couple of one-take numbers in there, people who love our first album will dig those songs. But there's also some of the most complicated stuff we've ever done. Of course, complicated forThe White Stripes means three instruments playing at once." There's also been more of the experimentation that added marimba and tympani to 2005's Get Behind Me Satan: "There's a bagpiper on the record! And we let electric guitar and trumpet battle it out on one song, call and response-style. It's pretty intense."
Song titled include I'm Slowly Turning Into You and Icky Thump - the Stripes' first ever title-track. The album will be released by XL in the UK, probably in June, with the American release handled by Warner Brothers.
White was fresh off a world tour with his other band, The Raconteurs, when he and Meg began work on Icky Thump. "I wondered if it would be weird, writing for the Stripes again," he muses, "but it was great, a really happy experience. Meg was on fire the whole time, really involved in the whole process."
A sequal to The Raconteurs' debut LP is still on the cards, he adds. "We start work on it in March. It's gonna be a busy year! I'm gonna record these two albums, tour them, then take a long break."