While the songs on Little Immaculate White Fox are informed by past

and present legends, they re as original as they are familiar, and the

way they re put together is both clever and surprising. Rock Child

opens with strident guitar stabs and rolling drums reminiscent of most

transcendent The Who, then blasts into a riff that s part Led

Zeppelin, part AC/DC and all brute sincerity. Broken White segues

from textural guitars and a mystically bobbing bassline into a

fist-flinging verse and a scalding, infectious chorus. By contrast,

Mama is worn and weary, like a Stones ballad wrapped around a

southern rock lighter-raiser. And Anything, the softest and most

lovelorn song, is beautifully colored by sparse instrumentation and

Pearl s broken voice and features a guest appearance by Alice in

Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell.