I finished Who's To Say, which completes the White tracks on Elephant.

If his collaborations, far this latest release, are any indication, White may be poised to change directions. It would add something like a touch of humor to the tracks, which clearly mean much to the singer same decidedly less to the listener. The album's 13 tracks catalogue varying Stripes of betrayal, loneliness and the loss of, and desire for, security. Get off Me Satan feels like a set of incomplete melodies.

Blue Orchid is unlike anything we've heard from the Detroit duo school not like anything else on Get Behind Me Satan, either, at least musically. Mailorder Flak big International orders.

Advice from the Stripes White Hippopotamus. All life need is two people, Jack has said, and any additional instruments are window dressing. Also added to Elephant: In The Cold, Cold Night White Stripes Girl, You Have No Faith In Medicine. The first three albums, The White Stripes, Stijl and White Blood Cells are finished. The approach involves a marimba, much piano, but less of Jack's guitar than one would expect, and less of Meg's minimal drum thumping.

Sign for Flak's weekly e-mail updates:. The Nurse, the album's second track, features marimba prominently.

Christopher Hickman (hickatz at dot com). You a white orchid, turned it blue.