Rankin x HungerTV - Jack White

  • Alex Gale
  • Julia Salotti
  • Bridget Vuillermin
  • Jack Chamberlain
  • Micaela McLucas
  • Juan Covelli
  • Conor Clarke
  • Ben Duah
  • Neil Bennett
  • Kenzie Yeo Donaldson
  • Lesley Vye
To record his new album, Boarding House Reach, Jack White retreated to a bolt-hole apartment on a non-descript block in Nashville. With nothing but a “a cot, a couple of books and coffee machine” as well as a drum machine, a guitar and a four-track tape recorder, he crafted a collection of 13 maximalist tracks that confront love, change, politics and the passage of time.
He describes the experience of self-imposed creative isolation as “as though I was kind of untouchable, but still there”. It’s a notion that translates onto the record.
“I’m very careful to not put too much of things that are really important to me into the songs because I don’t want them to be destroyed,” he says, describing a songwriting process during which he “creates characters in dialogue with one another” rather than mining his personal experience for inspiration and risking critical collateral damage. “If I put my most favourite, beautiful things in my mind, the things I love the most, into a song and people hate it, that would hurt. That would really hurt.” The result is an album that becomes part-sonic-experiment, part-fiction.
But you can never totally separate the art from the artist. And White’s philosophy and experience are there between the lines. Untouchable, but still there. Click here to view the full Jack White interview and story
Credits:
Photography: Rankin
Talent: Jack White
Creative: Julia Salotti
Hair: Jody Taylor
Make up: Lesley Vye

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