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Jack White is back with album fever. The musician has shared new single “Dollar Bill” from his upcoming seventh studio album “Frozen Charlotte,” out Friday, July 10.
“You can’t control me/Unless you owe me/And you don’t own me/Unless I blow you,” White bellows on “Dollar Bill,” shortly after the track erupts into an uncontrolled, bluesy guitar solo. The single is the third pre-released track from the album – after “Derecho Demonico” and “GOD and the Broken Ribs”, both of which were released earlier this year.
“Frozen Charlotte” will be White’s first full-length album since 2024’s “No Name,” which he initially released exclusively on blank vinyl as an accompaniment to purchases at select Third Man Records stores in Detroit, London and Nashville. With “Frozen Charlotte,” White took a similar, if less enigmatic, route: fans learned of the impending release when the musician quietly opened up pre-orders on his official website.
Artwork by White himself
The album cover – a white-painted figure with a striking blue skull as a head – was sculpted by White himself. “An old 1940s carnival chalk statue of a sailor boy falls over in my recording studio and the head breaks off. I grab a nearby blue skull percussion object and glue it in place of the head. I paint the body white and suddenly an entirely new character avatar that I named ‘Frozen Charlotte’ comes to life,” White wrote on Instagram.
He explained the title of the album and artwork as follows: It is derived from “a Victorian-era ceramic penny doll that could swim or be dressed in a dress, and is reminiscent of an old folk song about a girl who froze to death in the winter because she was not dressed appropriately.” The pieces he made can be seen in the exhibition “These Thoughts May Disappear” at the Newport Street Gallery in London until September.