The Dead Weather: Sea of Cowards

"The Dead Weather takes blues-derived sexual disclosure as far as I personally have ever seen it pushed. … Two albums released in quick succession (2009's Horehound and Sea of Cowards …) combined with an intense live show betray the truth about The Dead Weather: they expect to enlarge upon blues-rock's means to engage erotic frenzy in depth. … At age eighteen, [guitarist Jack] White … was terrified that the methods, force, feeling and fury of the blues were denied him as a Catholic seventh son from 1990s Mexicantown in Southwest Detroit. But he was hellbent on taking on the limits inherent in the blues. … His writing, performing and recording for ten years with The White Stripes evidences varied ingenious, credible, red-and-white ways to sing blues. The Dead Weather offers up one more way. And it's fierce. … The Dead Weather excels at new demonstrations of harrowing erotic fever, terror, and collapse. On stage they're loud, proud, and crawling in humiliation" (S. X. Rosenstock, "The Live Force of The Dead Weather," Huffington Post, 7/23/10).