
De Stijl
Released
2000
The White Stripes' second album distills Detroit garage rock to its primary colours, recorded on eight-track in Jack's living room with the same austere focus as its Dutch art movement namesake. The duo's blues archaeology runs deep here, covering Blind Willie McTell and Bukka White alongside originals like "You're Pretty Good Looking (For a Girl)", all rendered with slide guitar grit and Meg's metronome thump.
Their lo-fi aesthetic wasn't affectation but conviction, a middle finger to millennium-era studio gloss that made primitivism sound vital again.
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