Dead Weather: Sea of Cowards LP

No White Stripes? No problem. It's time to again get down with The Dead Weather. The latest musical adventure by Jack White (The White Stripes, The Raconteurs), epitomizes the alt-rock ethic: do the music you love, do it yourself, and do it fast. The Dead Weather brings together lead singer Alison Mosshart (half of the London-based lo-fi post-punk duo The Kills), Queens Of The Stone Age guitarist Dean Fertita, Raconteurs bassist Jack Lawrence, and White on drums and vocals. White also produced the group's debut album, Horehound, recorded in just three weeks earlier this year at his newly constructed Nashville studio. Coming hard and fast on the heels of its predecessor, the ceaselessly energetic Sea of Cowards is a robust and vigorous second act filled with primal, bone-quaking rock rhythms and the same stellar urban blues and throbbing sleaze. But this time, The Dead Weather push their sound even further, brilliantly building upon their raw chemistry to create one of the most vital sounding albums you’ll hear all year. Sea of Cowards pulls out all of the stops, and succeeds at being a daringly ambitious rock thrill ride. Better still, since White is involved, the sound is incredible. An avowed analog fanatic, he's again ensured that sonics are given as much care and attention as the music.