Frozen Charlotte (album)

In July 2024, Jack White surprise-released No Name, a garage rock album recorded with bass guitarist Dominic Davis and drummer Patrick Keeler. The album received widespread critical acclaim and was nominated for Best Rock Album at the 67th Annual Grammy Awards. For the album's accompanying tour, White, Davis and Keeler recruited keyboardist and organist Bobby Emmett, who expanded upon the band's hard rock aesthetic. Davis noted: "He and Jack could really go at it without getting in each other's way, which isn't easy as the keyboard can overpower things. But Bobby is from Detroit and he's from the rock 'n' roll scene, so we have a lot in common."^[2] Keeler elaborated, "Bobby's an old friend of mine. He was in a band called The Sights and we played tons of shows together. Jack was looking for a Hammond player and I said I knew one guy and he was better than anybody I knew at it."^[2]

With Emmett now in the band, the four-piece embarked on an extensive tour in support of No Name across 2024 and 2025, with the band working on unfinished song ideas from the No Name sessions and improvising new material during soundchecks and live performances: "Sometimes right in the middle of the set, we'd start playing something like "Neighbors Blues". That was born on stage. We went back into the studio and worked up some of those ideas. The tour was a lot of fun to play; there was a lot of improvisation, and when you have several thousand people in a room as you are writing a song, it changes things as you can respond to their emotions."^[2]

The band subsequently entered the studio as a four-piece to record a follow-up album to No Name, with Davis stating: "It felt different to No Name because now we had Bobby. We are all huge Deep Purple fans, so that's where this organ-and-guitar thing comes from."^[2] Ben Swank, the co-founder of White's label Third Man Records, praised the chemistry of the four-piece band stating: "It's not No Name Pt II. It's a little more classic rock than I've heard [White] do in a while – you can hear some of the jamminess you get from the live band. [...] It's the right line-up at the right time."^[2]

On April 3, 2026, White released two singles, "G.O.D. and the Broken Ribs" and "Derecho Demonico", on a limited edition seven-inch single and performed them both live on Saturday Night Live.^[3]

Frozen Charlotte was first quietly announced by a listing to pre-order the album on Third Man Records website.^[4] It was officially announced the next day, June 10, alongside the release of the third single from the album, "Dollar Bill".^[5]

The album was released on July 10, 2026, the same day that White's North America tour in support of the album began.^[6]

The album cover features a custom doll sculpture created by White, as part of his exhibition "These Thoughts May Disappear" at London's Newport Street Gallery.^[7] The doll is a death's head atop the body of a Frozen Charlotte, a style of penny doll based on a folk ballad about a girl that froze to death.^[8]

On the Frozen Charlatan variant of the album, the death's head is white instead of blue.

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Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
AnyDecentMusic?	7.5/10[9]
Metacritic	84/100[10]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Clash	7/10[11]
Consequence	B+[12]
Exclaim!	8/10[13]
The Guardian	[14]
Mojo	[15]
NME	[16]
Paste	B+[17]
Pitchfork	7.7/10[18]
Rolling Stone	[19]
Uncut	[20]

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According to the review aggregator Metacritic, Frozen Charlotte received "universal acclaim" based on a weighted average score of 84 out of 100 from sixteen critic scores.^[10] The review aggregator Any Decent Music gave it a weighted average score of 7.5 out of 10 from eighteen critic scores.^[9]

Credits are adapted from Tidal.^[21]

Musicians

• Jack White – vocals, lead guitar, production, mixing
• Dominic Davis – electric bass guitar
• Patrick Keeler – drums (tracks 1–5, 7–13), percussion (5–7, 11, 12)
• Bobby Emmett – Hammond organ (1–7, 9, 11–13), background vocals (3–8, 12, 13), Mellotron (5), keyboards (8)
• Daru Jones – drums (6)
• Olivia Jean – electric bass guitar (8)
• David James Swanson – percussion (11)

Technical personnel

• Bill Skibbe – mixing, mastering
• Dan Mancini – engineering assistance
• Hanford Pittman – engineering assistance
• Shibby Poole – engineering assistance