Entering Heaven Alive [B&N Exclusive] [Includes Slip Mat]

Entering Heaven Alive [B&N Exclusive] [Includes Slip Mat]

by Jack White
Entering Heaven Alive [B&N Exclusive] [Includes Slip Mat]

Entering Heaven Alive [B&N Exclusive] [Includes Slip Mat]

by Jack White

Vinyl LP(Long Playing Record - B&N Exclusive Edition)

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Overview

Calling Entering Heaven Alive the acoustic counterpart to Fear of the Dawn, the album it follows by a mere three months, isn't quite accurate even if this designation illustrates the divide between the two records. Where Fear of the Dawn is coiled, nervy, and tense, an explosion of paranoia and dread, Entering Heaven Alive is quieter and contemplative -- the music that arrives after the dawn, as it were. Jack White does pluck and strum an acoustic guitar throughout Entering Heaven Alive, sometimes conjuring ghosts of the softest White Stripes moments, but the arrangements on the album are detailed, spirited, and, in their own way, as adventurous as their counterparts on Fear of the Dawn. Witness "All Along the Way," the second song on the record: it begins as a hushed folk tune and then takes a left turn toward prog-reggae on its bridge. The album is filled with little moments like that: the stiff funk of "I've Got You Surrounded (With My Love)" slowly, surely gets jazzier as it crawls on, while the mellow melancholy pop of "If I Die Tomorrow" cascades to a Baroque crescendo. These are surrounded by sly stylistic excursions, such as the plaintive, skeletal ballad "Love Is Selfish," the old-timey shuffle "Queen of the Bees," and "Taking Me Back (Gently)," which flips the frenzied Fear of the Dawn opener into a ragtime shuffle. The musical range is remarkable yet not flashy: the detours and rambles all feel as if they stem from a natural stream of consciousness. Entering Heaven Alive feels of a piece with White's previous work, yet the ideas are synthesized and executed in fresh, inventive ways, suggesting that the ungainly Boarding House Reach was indeed a transitionary album to allow him to do music that's as relaxed and vibrant as this. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Product Details

Release Date: 07/22/2022
Label: Barnes & Noble
UPC: 0810074421355
Rank: 8669

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Jack White   Primary Artist,Drums,Piano,Ukeke,Guitar,Vocals,Voices,Mellotron,Wurlitzer,Chamberlin,Percussion,Vibraphone,Synthesizer,Drum Machine,Guitar (Bass),Organ (Hammond),Guitar (Acoustic),Guitar (Electric)
Dan Mancini   Guitar (Acoustic)
Patrick Keeler   Drums
Mark Watrous   Piano,Keyboards
Jack Lawrence   Guitar (Bass)
Ben Swank   Drums
Fats Kaplan   Viola,Violin,Strings
Quincy McCrary   Piano
Dominic Davis   Guitar (Bass),Bass (Upright)
Cory Younts   Piano
Pokey LaFarge   Guitar (Rhythm),Guitar (Acoustic)
Daru Jones   Drums
Ed Hoffman   Fonts
Olivia Jean   Shaker,Percussion,Guitar (Bass),Guitar (Electric)
Max Miedinger   Fonts

Technical Credits

Bill Skibbe   Mixing,Engineer,Mastering
Jack White   Mixing,Composer,Engineer,Producer
The Third Man   Package Design
Joshua V. Smith   Mixing,Engineer
Jordan Williams   Creative Director
Rob Jones   Package Design
Olivia Jean   Tic Tac
Sara Deck   Photo Restoration
Morgan Perry   Production Director
Gabe Chicoine   Design
Nikolai Matorin   Cover Photo
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