Bearing in mind this is a special 'for fans only' 7" single release (with absolutely diddly CDS available), it's quite possible it may have already been snapped up by the time you read this.
However, if you've been making like Tom Hanks in "Cast Away", there's just the outside chance you may not yet have heard The White Stripes' universally-acclaimed album "Elephant" just yet, which means you won't have heard "There's No Home For You Here" either, and thus won't know it's an epic, rip-roaring thing veering steadily between hushed whisper to orgasmic, Zeppelin-style anthem and back again thanks to Jack's theatrical guitar squalls and some huge, Cream-circa-"I Feel Free" massed vocal histrionics. Ver Stripes on top form basically. Trumping "Elephant" is going to be a tough assignment.
Longstanding fans, though, will really delight to the exclusive live medley on the flip. A suitably broiling, venom-spitting live medley of the supercharged, Robert Johnson-baiting "I Fought Piranhas" (from their debut album) and "De Stijl"s "mighty rumble "Let's Build A Home" recorded before an invited audience in New York's Electric Lady Studios, it's a vitriolic reminder of why column inches, court appearances and ruptured digits have failed to stop the Whites in their tracks.
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A brief, but most welcome rarity, then. Let's hope Jack's anger management classes don't upset the applecart as there remains ornery life aplenty in The White Stripes as yet.
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