
Album · 2003
Elephant
Elephant is an album by The White Stripes, released in 2003 on Third Man Records/Legacy, with 14 tracks.
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14 tracks · 50 min

Album · 2003
Elephant is an album by The White Stripes, released in 2003 on Third Man Records/Legacy, with 14 tracks.
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14 tracks · 50 min
Elephant is the fourth album by the American alternative rock band The White Stripes. Released on April 1, 2003 on V2 Records, the album marks the band's major label debut. Despite this change, Heather Phares of Allmusic believed the album "sounds even more pissed-off, paranoid, and stunning than its predecessor...Darker and more difficult than White Blood Cells." The record garnered extensive critical acclaim and commercial success upon its release, garnering a nomination for Album of the Year and a win for Best Alternative Music Album at the 46th Grammy Awards in 2004, peaking at 6 in the US Billboard charts and topping the UK album charts. In later years the album has often been cited as the White Stripes' best work and one of the best albums of 2000s; Rolling Stone magazine ranked it 390th on its list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" and later, the fifth-best of the decade. After the White Stripes achieved their mainstream breakthrough, they continued a "back-to-basics", this was reinforced by producing the album without computers, instead utilizing a duct-taped 8 track tape machine and gear no more recent than 1963. Musically, Elephant is a blues and garage rock recor…