The White Stripes - Elephant

The White Stripes recorded Elephant in two weeks during 2002 in London's Toe Rag Studios. Jack White produced the album with antiquated equipment, including an eight-track tape machine and pre-1960s recording gear.it's the first album they've recorded for a major label, and it sounds even more pissed-off, paranoid, and stunning than its predecessor. Darker and more difficult than White Blood Cells, the album offers nothing as immediately crowd-pleasing or sweet as "Fell in Love With a Girl" or "We're Going to Be Friends," but it's more consistent, exploring disillusionment and rejection with razor-sharp focus. Chip-on-the-shoulder anthems like the breathtaking opener, "Seven Nation Army," which is driven by Meg White's explosively minimal drumming, and "The Hardest Button to Button," in which Jack White snarls "Now we're a family!" – one of the best oblique threats since Black Francis sneered "It's educational!" all those years ago – deliver some of the fiercest blues-punk of the White Stripes' career.

4.5 stars out of 5 (allmusic.com)

Tracklist :
1."Seven Nation Army" – 3:51
2."Black Math" – 3:03
3."There's No Home for You Here" – 3:43
4."I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) – 2:46
5."In the Cold, Cold Night" – 2:58
6."I Want to Be the Boy to Warm Your Mother's Heart" – 3:20
7."You've Got Her in Your Pocket" – 3:39
8."Ball and Biscuit" – 7:19
9."The Hardest Button to Button" – 3:32
10."Little Acorns" (Mort Crim, J. White) – 4:09
11.Hypnotize" – 1:48
12. "The Air Near My Fingers" – 3:40
13."Girl, You Have No Faith in Medicine" – 3:17
14. "Well It's True That We Love One Another" – 2:42

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