Elephant

by The White Stripes

Elephant cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1 April 2003
  • Label: V2, Third Man, XL, Sum, Legacy, V2 Records Japan, Sheer, Sheridan Square
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 50:45
  • Community rating: 4.09/5 from 25 ratings

Artists on this release: Meg White, Jack White

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Recorded using strictly pre-1960s analog equipment, 'Elephant' emphasizes a raw, minimalistic blues-rock aesthetic. Driven by prominent, distorted guitar riffs and primitive drumming, the album revitalized classic rock tropes with unpolished energy and immediate melodic hooks.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, minimalistic, lo-fi, bluesy, distorted

Tracklist

  1. Seven Nation Army (03:52)
  2. Black Math (03:03)
  3. There's No Home For You Here (03:43)
  4. I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself (02:46)
  5. In The Cold, Cold Night (02:58)
  6. I Want To Be The Boy To Warm Your Mother's Heart (03:20)
  7. You've Got Her In Your Pocket (03:40)
  8. Ball and Biscuit (07:18)
  9. The Hardest Button to Button (03:32)
  10. Little Acorns (04:09)
  11. Hypnotize (01:48)
  12. The Air Near My Fingers (03:40)
  13. Girl, You Have No Faith In Medicine (03:17)
  14. It's True That We Love One Another (03:39)

Credits

  • Meg White - Member, drums, vocals
  • Jack White - Member, guitar, piano, mixed by, producer, vocals, written-by
  • The Third Man - artwork
  • Liam Watson - engineer, mixed by, recorded by
  • Bruce Brand - layout
  • Ian Montone - management [navigator]
  • Noel Summerville - mastered by
  • Patrick Pantano - photography by

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