Jack White has already shared a handful of tracks from his new album Lazaretto, including “Temporary Ground,” “High Ball Stepper,” and “Just One Drink,” but now he’s offering more. The White Stripes guru has teamed up with iTunes Radio to offer a full-fledged preview of his forthcoming project, streaming the album online ahead of its release.
Following his 2012 solo debut Blunderbuss, the brand-new “Lazaretto” marks White’s second solo album release. The album is inspired by a series of one-act plays and poems White wrote as a 19-year-old and features a wide range of sounds, from White Stripes-esque garage rock to rockabilly to country twang.
“And then I thought, before I [throw these way], why don’t I pull some of these characters out, some of these names, some of these sentences, and work with them? And I did. And it became a way to collaborate with my younger self,” said White. “I don’t pick my style and then write a song. I just write whatever comes out of me, and whatever style it is what it is, and it becomes something later.”
Lazaretto will be available in three forms: digital, CD, and a special vinyl ‘Ultra’ version, featuring two vinyl-only hidden tracks. The hidden songs will be situated under the labels on the record, with one playing at 78 rpm and one at 45 rpm, making the release a three speed album.
In addition to extra tracks, the vinyl album will have a different running order from the digital and CD release and a super cool, hand-etched hologram of an angel by Tristan Duke of Infinity Light Science in the dead wax of Side A.
“This is a really beautiful component to the Ultra LP,” said White about the record’s artwork.
Lazaretto will be available in the U.S. on June 9 via White’s own label Third Man and XL Recordings. Check out the tracklist below and stream the album in full on iTunes here.
Tracklisting:
- ‘Three Women’
- ‘Lazaretto’
- ‘Temporary Ground’
- ‘Would You Fight For My Love?’
- ‘High Ball Stepper’
- ‘Just One Drink’
- ‘Alone In My Home’
- ‘Entitlement’
- ‘That Black Bat Licorice’
- ‘I Think I Found The Culprit’
- ‘Want And Able’
