DFTD’s Top Albums of 2009: The Dead Weather’s Horehound
2009 featured the debut of several musical “supergroups” (Monsters of Folk, Them Crooked Vultures), but my personal favorite was undoubtedly The Dead Weather. In case you haven’t heard, The Dead Weather is the musical collaboration between Jack White, The Kills’ Alison Mosshart, Queens of the Stone Age’s Dean Fertita, and the Raconteurs’ Jack Lawrence . Together they made some of the dirtiest, loudest, and rawest rock music this year.
Horehound sounds like it’s meant to be listened to while shooting whiskey, chain-smoking, or watching someone twirl around a stripper pole. Their fusion of blues, metal, and punk is damn well-executed, even if it isn’t necessarily groundbreaking. The album isn’t all one-note; “Cut Like A Buffalo” has a funk undertone , while “Bone House” is a straight-up searing rock song. For me, Mosshart is the star of the band, a badass front-woman shrieking and howling and selling us all off to the devil.
