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My album of the year so far, 'Fear of the Dawn' is a major return to form for Jack's solo career, featuring more intricate composition and mixing, bolstered by his trademark garage rock energy.

1) Eosophobia
My #1 summer jam. Starts a bit inconspicuously but builds into a contagiously energetic chorus, contrasting with its brooding half-time verse.

2) What's the Trick
Maybe the track that sounds most like an old-school White Stripes song. Jack's guitar is raw and menacing here.

3) Taking Me Back
A very good choice for the album's main single. Cool 'strobe' effect on the guitar.

4) White Raven
Up until right now I thought he was saying A Wine Machine Gun, A Wine Machine Gun. Classic weird Jack White vocals.

5) Hi-De-Ho
I had no idea what to make of this for the first several listens, but now I love it. Q-Tip crushes it. A wild mish-mash of like 5 different genres.

6) That Was Then (This is Now)
Only weak part of this is when he finally gets to the song's title. I really dig the repeated triplet drum fill that ends at what sounds like a brake drum.

7) Into the Twilight
Manages to stay interesting for almost 5 minutes with hardly any lyrical structure

8) Fear of the Dawn
Pretty much just 2 minutes of Jack soloing which is a-ok

9) Morning, Noon and Night
A solid track that marks the winding down of the album. Has a charming old-timey blues sound to it but with a basic keyboard riff and an almost-intentionally dissonant solo.

10) Eosophobia (Reprise)
Love the 'chugging' opening to this. Would still be OK as just a standalone song separate from Eosophobia.

11) Shedding My Velvet
Even as a more somber, 'downer' track, it has some pretty sick guitar

12) Dusk
Not much to this of course but it's a fine little interlude