Entering Heaven Alive
| Jack White
Entering Heaven Alive
Entering Heaven Alive is the fifth studio album by the American rock musician Jack White, released on July 22, 2022, through Third Man Records. -Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
The follow-up to this year’s wild Fear of the Dawn is a stripped-down songwriter record, but often the songs don’t resonate as deeply as the sounds.
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Rolling Stone
Jack White’s ‘Entering Heaven Alive’ Is a Singer-Songwriter Therapy Session, In a Good Way.
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NME
his richest and most satisfying solo era yet.
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PopMatters
With Entering Heaven Alive Jack White offers the yang to the yin of Fear of the Dawn while broadening his musical palette.
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The Wall Street Journal
On his second album of the year, the former White Stripes frontman goes mostly unplugged for a somewhat stiff and sleepy record of singer-songwriter material.
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Paste Magazine
On Entering Heaven Alive, Jack White Doesn’t Commit to the Bit.
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Slant Magazine
The musician’s second album in three months exists at a blurry intersection of inscrutability and openness.
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Evening Standard
Sunday morning tunes are pleasant company.
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Our Culture
Jack White has mastered the art of throwing everything at the wall and contrasting his various artistic sensibilities without losing his core audience; now would be a good time to try to bring it all together.
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Consequence
Jack White’s Entering Heaven Alive Is an Acoustic Wonderland of His Own Design.
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The Arts Desk
Entering Heaven Alive is White on a roll, easy-going but musically rich, and its many moods and styles carry over well.
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mxdwn Music
All in all, this is a softer, calmer-sounding album for White, but it is done so beautifully. The album as a whole speaks to the complex and complicated nature of love, and the different facets of the human experience it brings about.
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The Firenote
On Fear of the Dawn, White sought to create a heavy, hard, near-metal sound built on big, noisy rock chords, while striving to break new ground. Similarly, here he’s turned down the volume but worked to create something uniquely his own, and the result is one of his strongest collections of songs in many years.
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Northern Transmissions
Entering Heaven Alive isn’t your typical Jack White rock record, but it doesn’t need to be. It shows a different artistic side of his craft and approach. It proves that he’s a lot more versatile than he’s led on with his previous releases. This is why this album is a great one and I highly suggest giving it a listen if you’re an appreciator of the art of song. You also should give it a listen if you’re already a Jack White fan to begin with.
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Renowned For Sound
Entering Heaven Alive could not be further from his early work, but it’s just as inventive and well executed. Fans of his previous solo efforts may find this album a step too far in the folk direction, but for others it will be a breath of fresh air.
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Under the Radar Magazine
In total, Entering Heaven Alive lacks the wacky, adventurous spirit of its twin brother but that was hardly its aim. In the interview with Spin, White describes Entering Heaven Alive as a “gentle Sunday morning album.” On a purely sonic front, he’s largely succeeded, crafting a rich acoustic landscape for his meditations on love, both romantic and platonic. But unfortunately, the songs themselves don’t stand up to his best acoustic work. It’s not a bad album by any means, but it’s also rarely exceptional, and therefore, not very memorable.
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Blues Rock Review
Entering Heaven Alive (and to only a slightly lesser degree, Fear Of The Dawn) sees Jack White returning from the pandemic focused, revisiting and reinventing a new artistic zenith in one of the early frontrunners for album of the year.
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AllMusic
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.
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Music Matters Media
Jack White continues to approach every album like a special gift to his audience, leaving us clueless about which direction he will head in next time around. And even though it may not always guarantee high quality, at least it is always exciting.
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Spectrum Culture
Enough of the album works that it’s easily White’s best solo release and the best thing he’s made in quite some time.
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DIY Magazine
An entrancing record, full of quiet calm, and plenty of musical rabbit-holes to dive down.
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Sacred Exile
Entering Heaven Alive is an album you can put on during a road trip or in the background when friends come over, and someone will perk up and ask, 'hey, what is this?' It's more amicable than his more brash solo albums while still pushing and exploring new paths.
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Riff Magazine
Jack White is obviously doing something right. Some of us struggle just putting on anything besides sweatpants after more than two years of COVID-19 lockup. Somehow, White managed to write and record two albums and propose to and marry his longtime girlfriend Olivia Jean. Jack White is clearly firing on all cylinders, and we’re lucky his boundless creativity have netted us two fantastic albums this year.
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musicOMH
Second solo album of the year from the former White Stripes man finds him in mostly relaxed, stripped-back mood – and it works beautifully.
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The Needle Drop
Not some of Jack’s better ballads.
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Tinnitist
The rock Renaissance man lowers the volume and gets introspective on this mellow and more melodic complement to the audaciously outsized Fear Of The Dawn.
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Mystic Sons
Although a wildly vivid and enjoyable listen in places, 'Entering Heaven Alive' doesn't really hold the same bite as he displayed on 'Fear Of The Dawn'. As a result, it feels more like a tacked on collection of ideas that haven't been fully realised, but try to at least offer up something more tender throughout.
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Heavy Magazine
With the many different styles and genres Jack White has tackled over the years, he really does have something for everyone. Entering Heaven Alive covers the sweeter, lighter, tame side of Jack. That’s not to say you don’t get all the attitude, humor and fun that he is well known for. You get plenty here, and it is the sweet sibling to the evil twin accentuated by Fear Of The Dawn.
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Record Collector Magazine
White can be an abstract lyricist, but here his insecurities, not least around his recent marriage, looms large: Help Me Along has a wedding vow lyric about being in it for the long haul, faults and all; Love A Selfish Thing details his fear of love and how it makes him behave; If I Die Tomorrow worries how his partner will react upon his death. It adds up to White’s most relatable – and accessible – record in some time.
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