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New Raconteurs Album - Next Week!
Posted at 4:10 AM on March 18, 2008
by Mac Wilson
Taking a page from Radiohead, the Raconteurs drop word of their brand new album, Consolers of the Lonely, in the middle of the night. Even better, it's coming out next week! Pitchfork has the full press release, so you can dig in to all the details. 14 new tracks, and the album will be available digitally (at 320kb, no less), as well as on CD and vinyl.
I was actually thinking about Jack White's recorded output earlier today. The catalyst was the fact that the new Gnarls Barkley record, The Odd Couple, will be released in just a few weeks. Gnarls Barkley and the Raconteurs have always been permanently linked in my brain; I went to Europe for two weeks after my college graduation in the spring of 2006, and by the time I got back to America, "Crazy" and "Steady, As She Goes" had totally blown up and were the biggest hits in the country. I knew the Raconteurs had been in the studio, and I found it strange that I hadn't heard anything about them lately. One of my longtime maxims regarding Jack White is that you never know when one of his projects is going to release a new album -- with his tendencies towards low-fi recording and mixing, an album could pop up out of the blue at any time. I also thought it was cool that with his involvement in two bands, we have the potential for a new Jack White album every year! (The White Stripes in odd years, the Raconteurs in evens) Looks like both of these things have come to pass; they only finished mastering the album at the beginning of March! I wasn't totally won over by Broken Boy Soldiers, but I look forward to seeing what White and Brendan Benson can pull off together the second time around.
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