Acarajé Hideout

This is my first shrine, and i decided to talk about my most favorite band! I've discovered them in 2017, thanks to the series Peaky Blinders. Really, the director must love them also, because I just checked and there is like seven White Stripes songs on the OST. But the song that made me look at their discography was Ball and Biscuit, A really jam based tune, very loose and close to the blues, with that garage rock/punk edge that made them unique.

The first album I heard was Elephant, which has the song I just talked about, and of course their most known song, Seven Nation Army. This album is arguably their best, in which Jack's guitar tone is the most polished and at the same time broken. Meg's drumming is always good, though I know many people dont like her style of playing, the way she does play is essencial to the raw sound of the band, and honestly, because of her style I can safely say she is the most punk drummer ever, not abiding by any rules and still sounding good.

When I discovered them I was just starting to learn how to play the guitar, and the "easy" riffs that Jack made really paved the way for my learning, and though lots of songs are really hard, you can see that specially on the first albums, their riffs are simple and effective. My first learned tune was Screwdriver. I aspired specially to be good at improvising, and I learned along the years so many of their songs that I feel like most of Jack's licks and style transfer to my own style today.

It's incredible how this band changed the way I perceive music, before then I had a really strict mindset of how music should sound like and lots of other styles for me just weren't "music". But songs like Little Room, and learning about the delta blues that inspired the band, taught me important lessons about what music can be, where our music comes from raw sounds with rhythm, to show emotions we can't put into words.