News Listen: The Dead Weather Stream ‘Rough Detective’ Track
B-side appears on the first of 12 Dead Weather singles released this year.
an incoming series of singles by The Dead Weather, released bit-by-bit until eventually landing with an album in 2015.
Last month the first half of the first single, 'Open Up (That's Enough)', was unveiled in scrappy quality (presumably by a fan who'd grabbed the vinyl and ended up overly excited). That splintering lead track has now been joined by 'Rough Detective', its b-side. Jack White leads vocals in a deranged, throbbing number that spits out every word in a bitter, twisted tongue.
Note: It also contains the lyric, 'Your instinct is defective but your cock's on fire'...
Listen to the single in full below and on Spotify.
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