After heading up The White Stripes and then forming The Raconteurs, it seems Jack White was still not quite musically fulfilled and so somewhere between August 2005 and February 2006 Jack found time for another project. Aluminium is “an album of avant garde orchestral recordings of music written by Jack White.”
This basically entails taking Jack White songs, stripping them down to the barest bones and then building them up again using a huge array of orchestral talent, including many of the UK’s finest young musicians. The results range from the pacy, full of suspense sounds of title track Aluminuim, and ‘Why Can’t You Be Nicer to Me’; to the chilled and ambient sounds of ‘Never Far Away’.
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It’s difficult to recognise the songs for what they once were, ‘The Hardest Button to Button’ certainly sounds nothing like the one we all know and love, but that is what makes this album all the more fascinating.
On the whole, while not an album that would suit general audiences you have to give credit where it’s due. Each song has an imaginative composition, and would effortlessly transcend the world of Compact Disc and accompany a highly successful Broadway show or ballet recital. The question is what genre of music will Jack White try out next…
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