The White Stripes are back with the most bombastic album they've ever produced. While revealing the band's roots in American folk music, Icky Thump is an explosive, revolutionary assault that brings together garage rock, every blues style of the past 100 years, nouveau, and flamenco. This is truly a modern rock and roll masterpiece.

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A more accurate title would be "The Best of Recent British Folk Rock," since, of the 18 tracks included on this 73+-minute disc, 14 date from 1992-96. That's not to say that many of the performers don't date from well before the '90s, however: among the nine groups represented are such familiar names as Steeleye Span, the Strawbs, Fairport Convention, Pentangle, and Lindisfarne. Compiler John Dagnell has mostly opted for stirring, uptempo selections, often with politically charged lyri...   [ read more ]

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The word "folk-rock" seems to mean something different to everyone, and many fans might find Dream Babes, Vol. 5: Folk Rock and Faithfull, a compilation of 22 woman-sung 1965-1969 tracks to be more accurately pegged as "folk-rock-influenced pop/rock" than "folk-rock." Even if it's more featherweight than the Byrds (or for that matter the Mamas & the Papas), it's a pretty interesting and fun collection of rarities, most of them sung by British femmes and produced in the U.K. (though a c...   [ read more ]

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