Nashville resident rocker Jack White released a self-directed cloudy, vintage-looking performance video for his acoustic guitar and keyboard-led track "Love Interruption," the first single from the uuber-cool rocker's upcoming solo debut effort "Blunderbuss," will drop in full on April 23. The former White Stripes man has a pretty large profile in the music world. But, he'll launch his solo career on March 3, when he performs on Saturday Night Live – an episode to be hosted by Lindsay Lohan."Love Interruption," is a sparse and breezy episode of empty air acoustics, where a few simple strums of the guitar are given dimension by subtle swirls of clarinet and electric piano. White's distinctly familiar voice is the undeniable center of the arrangement, but his simple man delivery is blanketed by the full-bodied brood of backup vocalist Ruby Amanfu, whose mere presence rightfully keeps the tune from turning too much into one man's desperate plea for absolution. The sound may be mellow but the lyrics sure ain't as we hear White and Amanfu singing intensely of love in a bitter way.
The lyrics are exactly what you would expect from White at this stage; a concise and clever meditation on the longing that comes with loneliness, albeit with a darkened twist that is as cynical as it is romantic. Not just anyone could have you feeling a sense of empowerment while singing along to lines about killing your own mother and turning all of your friends into enemies, but White pulls it off here, particularly when the been-burned-before defiance of the chorus becomes more and more redemptive with each repetition.
White's "Love Interruption," as its discourse is all love. White its understated melody hints at something simpler, White's love is not for the faint of heart, speaking to murder plots and doors slamming on fingers, to lost friends and fresh enemies. It's not a song that needs a catchy video, and with its ashy tones and simple backdrop, the vision is not particularly compelling. "Love Interruption" isn’t a track for everyone, and it is certainly not a track for Valentine's Day, but in the midst of winter skies and winter sickness and winter stay-abed love affairs, it will suit many of us just fine.
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