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Elephant
The 259th greatest album of all time
Elephant, released in 2003 by The White Stripes, is a stark guitar and drums album that blends garage rock revival energy with blues-rooted riffs and punk-tinged directness. The duo's minimal arrangements foreground Jack White's raw guitar tone and Meg White's propulsive, sometimes primitive drumming, producing a punchy, analog influenced sound that moves between thunderous rockers and spare bluesy numbers. It features the riff-driven track "Seven Nation Army" and is often cited as a defining release of the early 2000s garage rock revival.
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