Fear Of The Dawn

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“Every time I go in, I'm trying to do something I haven't done before,” Jack White tells Apple Music. “And it's not like something that <i>other</i> people have never done before. It’s whatever it is to get me to a different zone so I'm not repeating myself.” On <i>Fear of the Dawn</i>—the first of two solo LPs White is releasing in 2022, and the first in over four years—that zone is the world of digital studio effect, new territory for an artist who’s long been an avatar and champion for all matters analog. Here, working in lockdown and playing most of the instruments himself as a result, White’s challenged himself to make a rock record that’s every bit as immediate and textured as what he’s made before. The guitars are scrambled and fried, blown out and buffed to an often blinding shine (see: the crispy title track; “The White Raven”). Keys squiggle and giggle (“Morning, Noon and Night”), drums stutter and skitter and hiccup (“That Was Then, This is Now,” “What’s the Trick?”). It’s a real studio record, saturated and collage-like—White flexing his muscles as a producer. “I don't know how many, but there's dozens and dozens of track,” he says of the recording proce. “I never used to do that. I made mistakes—I would play drums last, which you're not supposed to do. But then I started to feed off of that. I liked that it was wrong. It's nice that time goes on and you get better at certain things in the studio.” .

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