The White Stripes Elephant (20th Anniversary) 2LP (Red Smoke & Clear with Red & Black Smoke Vinyl)

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Originally released on April 1, 2003, Elephant is The White Stripes' critically acclaimed fourth studio album. The 14 track album peaked at #6 on the US Billboard chart and earned a nomination for Album of the Year and a win for Best Alternative Music Album at the 46th Grammy Awards in 2004. The album includes stand out tracks "Seven Nation Army," "The Hardest Button to Button," and "Ball and Biscuit."

The 20th Anniversary 2LP vinyl is a red smoke and clear with red & black smoke color mix along with an alternative cover design.

Elephant overflows with quality - it's full of tight songwriting, sharp, witty lyrics, and judiciously used basses and tumbling keyboard melodies that enhance the band's powerful simplicity... they've succeeded at mixing blues, punk, and garage rock in an electrifying and unique way ever since they were strictly a Detroit phenomenon. On these terms, Elephant is a phenomenal success.

The world outside garage rock obsessives caught up with the White Stripes around 2001 courtesy of a certain Lego video that wound up in heavy rotation on MTV. Seizing the moment, Jack and Meg White turned around with Elephant, an undeniably accessible and varied LP that ventured into tender Young Marble Giants territory ('In The Cold, Cold Night') and added Queen-like vocal harmonics ('There's No Room for You Here') and thudding post-punk into their blues-rock repertoire. As a result, the band's fame exploded and carried the duo forth into arenas for the next few years. This 20th anniversary reissue was, then, inevitable. As was the well considered way it has been re-released on vinyl.