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Album: Jack White

Jack White’s evangelism on behalf of vinyl threatens to eclipse his stature as a rock star. The 12 inch ‘ultra LP’ edition of his second solo record features a floating ‘angel hologram’, hidden songs and a ‘locked groove’, an idea inspired by the original edition of the Beatles’ Sgt Pepper.

Rather than promote the release in the traditional fashion — by giving interviews and performing on TV — two weeks ago he turned up on the Jimmy Fallon show helping Neil Young record a song straight to vinyl (Young sang, White busied himself in his vintage 1947 Voice-o-Graph recording booth). Increasingly his actual recording career has started to resemble a quaint afterthought.