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JACK WHITE

 Lazaretto (2014, Vinyl LP,Record) 

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Lazaretto is the second studio album by . It was released on June 10, 2014, through White's own label  in association with  and . The limited-edition "Ultra"  features hidden songs, secret grooves and holograms that materialize when the record is being played. Lazaretto was partly inspired by a collection of short stories, poems, and plays White wrote when he was 19 years old and rediscovered years later in his attic. The album debuted at number one on the , selling 138,000 copies in its first week.

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Lazaretto was widely acclaimed by contemporary music critics. At , which assigns a  rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an  score of 80, based on 46 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews". 's Stephen M. Deusner remarked: "Lazaretto makes all of his other projects sound a bit scrawny by comparison. It’s the densest, fullest, craziest, and most indulgent that White has sounded". Phil Hebblethwaite of  described it as "a varied album that lacks any monster riffs like the ones White used to write for The White Stripes, but includes enough intrigue, originality and plain weirdness to delight and, in some places, appal."  of wrote: "On the surface, Lazaretto seems to be the work of someone who's furiously angry at everything from "children today" [...] to God", but because the album "possesses both a sense of humour" and "a sense of perspective", that makes the album "a rather more complicated business than it first appears."

Randall Roberts of the  described the album as "lyrically and musically challenging and filled with many fresh avenues of exploration, even as it nods to key tones and ideas from throughout the history of pre-rap American music." Jason Pettigrew of  called it "more jubilant, unbridled and manic" than Blunderbuss, and that "Lazaretto finds him simultaneously unbridled as a player, yet meticulous as both mad scientist and personal diarist." At , Jerry Shriver found the release to be "highly-charged, wonderfully weird and typically eclectic treasure chest of tunes that rank with his best."  of  noted how White's craftsmanship on the album comes "with a decisive attention to contour, color scheme and cagey, durable detail." At ,  illustrated how White "is, characteristically, more of a shape-shifter, engaging in gleeful sonic alchemy throughout its 11 tracks as he stirs together a dizzying array of influences, from garagey psychedelia to earthy Americana."

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Songs on the album were inspired, in part, by short stories and plays written by White when he was 19 years old. He found the writings in his attic and reworked them into new lyrics. ""Some of it's garbage, and I sort of laughed while I was reading it," he explained to Rolling Stone. "I was going to throw away a bunch of it, but I was just coming up with new styles of attacking songwriting for the album." In April, a video of the instrumental song "High Ball Stepper" was released as a teaser for the album. "Lazaretto", the title track, was confirmed as the album's first single. White explained the song's meaning to : "This was a rhyme about the braggadocio of some hip-hop lyrics — the bragging about oneself in hip-hop music. The character who's singing this song is bragging about himself, but he's actually bragging about real things he's actually accomplished and real things that he actually does, not imaginary things or things he would like to do." The song "Just One Drink" premiered in May.