Jack White is back in album mode. The musician has shared the 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 owe you,” White shouts on “Dollar Bill” just after the track launches into an erratic, bluesy guitar solo. The single is the third track to be shared as a preview for the record, following “Derecho Demonico” and “G.O.D. and the Broken Ribs,” both released earlier this year.
Frozen Charlotte will mark the first full-length LP from White since 2024’s No Name, which he first released on exclusive unmarked vinyl included with purchases made at select Third Man Records stores in Detroit, London, and Nashville. For Frozen Charlotte, White took a similar though less cryptic approach to announcing the album. Fans found out about the upcoming release when the musician quietly launched pre-orders on his official website.
The album artwork, which features a white-bodied figure with a bold blue skull for a head, was sculpted by White himself. “An old carnival prize chalkware statue from the 1940’s of a sailor boy falls over in my recording studio and its head breaks off. I grab a nearby blue skull shaker percussion object and glue it in the head’s place. I paint the body white and suddenly an all new character avatar that I called ‘Frozen Charlotte’ came to life,” White wrote on Instagram.
The album and artwork title, he explained, comes from “a penny doll toy from victorian times, they were ceramic but could float or have a dress put over, recalling an old folk song about a girl who froze to death from not dressing properly in the winter.” The pieces he crafted will be on display at the “These Thoughts May Disappear” exhibition at the Newport Street Gallery in London through September.
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