| 1 |
60 Feet Tall
Written-By – Mosshart*, Fertita* |
5:31 | ||
| 2 |
Hang You From The Heavens
Written-By – Mosshart*, Fertita* |
3:37 | ||
| 3 |
I Cut Like A Buffalo
Guitar – Alison Mosshart Written-By – White* |
3:28 | ||
| 4 |
So Far From Your Weapon
Written-By – Mosshart* |
3:37 | ||
| 5 |
Treat Me Like Your Mother
Written-By – Mosshart*, Fertita*, Lawrence*, White* |
4:17 | ||
| 6 |
Rocking Horse
Bass – Dean Fertita Guitar – Jack Lawrence Written-By – Mosshart*, White* |
2:49 | ||
| 7 |
New Pony
Arranged By – Dead Weather, The Written-By – Bob Dylan |
3:57 | ||
| 8 |
Bone House
Written-By – Mosshart*, Fertita*, Lawrence*, White* |
3:26 | ||
| 9 |
3 Birds
Guitar – Alison Mosshart Written-By – Mosshart*, Fertita*, Lawrence*, White* |
3:43 | ||
| 10 |
No Hassle Night
Written-By – Mosshart*, White* |
2:54 | ||
| 11 |
Will There Be Enough Water?
Acoustic Guitar – Jack White (2) Drums – Jack Lawrence Engineer – Philip J. Harvey Written-By – Fertita*, White* |
6:08 |
Booklet with lyrics.
Recorded and mixed at Third Man Studio in Nashville, TN, October 2008 and February 2009.
© & ℗ 2009 Third Man Records exclusively licensed to Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited.
Made in the EU
| Title, Format | Label | Cat# | Country | Year | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Horehound (LP + LP, S/Sided, Etch + , Album) | Third Man Records | TMR-008 | US | 2009 | ||
| Horehound (CD, Album) | Third Man Records, Third Man Records, Warner Bros. Records, Warner Bros. Records | 2-519785, 519785-2 | US | 2009 | ||
| Horehound (CD, Album) | Third Man Records, Warner Bros. Records | 2-519785 | Canada | 2009 | ||
| Horehound (CD, Album) | Third Man Records, Columbia | 88697539122 | Australia | 2009 |
Right from the ambient discords that swell into the delta blues swamp-punk rhythms of the opening track "60 Feet Tall" the band stamp their genius over the following ten tracks with Mosshart's vocal delivery typical of her role in The Kills, delivered like a frenetic Patti Smith or Karen Orzolek. Fertita's guitar-organ and synth work add an uneasy and spectral aura to the work, giving a kind of Korn-like edge to tracks like "3 Birds" or the inner realms of "Treat Me Like Your Mother". Lawrence, seemingly joined at the hip with White from "Raconteurs" sessions plugs the holes, where the multi-talented White fails to play three instruments at once, such as the sweeping guitar work on "Rocking Horse" that wouldn't be lost in a David Lynch movie.
Whilst Mosshart may take center stage with lyrical input on all but two of the tracks, one of which is a cover of Dylan's "New Pony", it is White who is undoubted master of this eclectic foursome. His drumming is very much in the foreground of the mix and his guitar work retains all the spirit of blues traditions, seemingly plugged into the same inspirational sources as JJ Cale and Tom Morello at once. White also produced the album throughout a series of collective songwriting sessions in early 2009 and it's faultlessly engineered by Philip J. Harvey and mixed by Vance Powell & White. The album closes with the plaintive and slow-paced gospel blues style "Will There Be Enough Water?"
My question is "How long before 3 Birds pops up in a TV ad?" This is a 5-star album from a 5-star band. Don't miss it.