Ten years on, Jack White's guitar riffs are as hard and Zep-heavy as ever, and Meg White hits her drums with a proto-primitive wallop powerful enough to match her ex-hubby's racket. The duo's latest was another step away from its lo-fi garage-blues beginnings and toward its true destiny: a classic rock 'n' roll outfit whose song never remains the same.

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