“Love Interruption” by Jack White

"Love Interruption" was the first thing Jack White released after the White Stripes dissolved, out at the end of January 2012 to herald Blunderbuss, the first album under his own name, and it skips the volume entirely. It's just White's acoustic guitar, Brooke Waggoner's Wurlitzer and the woody moan of Emily Bowland's bass clarinet, with Ruby Amanfu's voice twined around his: a stark Americana blues that talks about love in the language of violence, and hurts more the quieter it gets.

White wrote and produced it, Vance Powell recorded it and the two mixed it together. Critics warmed to how far it strayed from the White Stripes, and White directed the video himself, a plain performance with Amanfu and a backing band. He later sang it at the 55th Grammy Awards.

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