The Dead Weather: Sea of Cowards | CD review

(Third Man/Warner Bros)"I'm mad! Ha ha!" sings Alison Mosshart, four tracks into the Dead Weather's second album. Then, with she, Jack White, Jack Lawrence and Dean Fertita seemingly of the belief that this convincingly summons up gothic insanity, she repeats it for most of the rest of the song. The effect, needless to say, isn't of a band operating at the outer limits of the mind. Instead, one imagines stickers attached to flight cases: "You don't have to be crazy to play sludgy blues rock – ...

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