The White Stripes Entertainment Art "Get Behind Me Satan" (V2 Records) Released June 7, 2005

But that is not the case at all, as The White Stripes continue to blow past their peers in unwavering fashion, exploring the best of blues, rock, and alt-country, without coming off as too conventional.

Meg is, of course, the metronome we've come to expect on drums and helps hone down the different layerings Jack’s loud guitar riffs on “Take, Take, Take” and “My Doorbell”, two of the albums strongest songs.

A quick glance at the title of the record, recorded in February 2005, might suggest that Jack White was using ironic New Testament language to kick dust at Kenny Chesney’s new bride. But all speculation aside, the White’s lyrics find him as introspective as ever on songs like "Forever For Her (Is Over For Me)" and “Ugly As I Seem”.

All the while, on the album’s more rocking of songs, the scrotum-searing falsetto White displays on a regular occasion, most notably found on the albums' first single "Blue Orchid", is enough to perk the ears of a casual listener.

The album closes in true Hank Williams-esque manner with the whimper of Jack’s voice behind a piano on “I’m Lonely (But I Ain’t That Lonely Yet)” putting to rest the Stripes’ solid record.

The way “Elephant” was hailed by critics after its release in 2003, you would have thought that if you rubbed the rubbed the disc on a malignant tumor, it would become benign. But the cold hard truth is that what it lacked was the spark that made “De Stijl” and “White Blood Cells” so intriguing, not because it was over hyped as a much as it was poorly executed for most of the album. While “Satan” comes close to regaining that spark, it really just serves as just another good LP in a catalog of many more peppermint-striped records to come.

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