Icky Thump
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| Studio album by The White Stripes | ||||
| Released | June 15, 2007 | |||
| Recorded | February 2007 at Blackbird Studio, Nashville | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock, garage rock, punk blues, blues rock | |||
| Length | 47:44 | |||
| Label | Third Man/Warner Bros. | |||
| Producer | Jack White | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 80/100 |
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| AllMusic |   |
| The A.V. Club | A− |
| Entertainment Weekly | A |
| The Guardian | |
| MSN Music | A− |
| NME | 9/10 |
| Pitchfork Media | 8.0/10 |
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Icky Thump is the sixth and final studio album by US alternative rock band The White Stripes. It was released June 15, 2007 in Germany, June 18, 2007 in the rest of Europe, and June 19, 2007 in the rest of the world. It was the band's only album on Warner Bros. Records.
Icky Thump entered the UK Albums Chart at number one and debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 with 223,000 copies sold, behind "Lost Highway" by Bon Jovi. By late July, Icky Thump was certified gold in the United States. As of March 8, 2008, the album has sold 725,125 copies in the US. On February 10, 2008, the album won a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album.
After Get Behind Me Satan,Icky Thump marks a return to the punk, garage rock and blues influences for which the band is known. Additionally, the album introduces Scottish folk music, avant-garde, trumpet, and bagpipes into the formula, whilst simultaneously reintroducing older characteristics such as the first studio recording of the early White Stripes song "Little Cream Soda".
Icky Thump was recorded and mixed entirely in analog at Nashville's Blackbird Studio by Joe Chiccarelli. According to Chiccarelli in an interview with HitQuarters, the band had already rehearsed and demoed around half the album, with the rest being conceived in the studio. The album took almost three weeks to record—the longest of any White Stripes album. The recording differed from previous albums in that White had the comparative luxury of recording to 16-track analog rather than his usual 8-track. Also, Chiccarelli said: "We spent a little more time than he is used to experimenting and trying different things on that album, whether it was different ways to record the drums or the vocals, or different arrangements, or cutting takes together.". Trumpet player Regulo Aldama, who appears on "Conquest", was discovered by Jack White at a local Mexican restaurant.
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