Jack White Boarding House Reach

On robo-funk adventure “Get In the Mind Shaft”, Jack White recalls the wonder of first playing a piano chord by hitting three notes together. It’s a neat allegory for a record that feverishly forges disparate elements—hip-hop, country, gospel, electronic music, jazz—together to see what magic happens. Here, at his most playful, White obliterates any lingering notion of him as a garage-rock diehard. “Over and Over and Over” delivers a familiar but no less invigorating dose of high-voltage blues, but only after he’s successfully cross-pollinated rock and psychedelic funk (“Corporation”) and rapped through “Ice Station Zebra”. The cascade of ideas is dizzying, but two decades after White first committed himself to vinyl, his possibilities seem endless.