Consolers of the Lonely
Announced and released within a week, the sophomore record from Jack White and Brendan Benson's band features stuffed arrangements, big hooks, and even bigger guitars.
Since their seemingly out-of-nowhere 2006 debut, The Raconteurs have been a little confounding. A supergroup featuring just one superstar—its players are Jack White, singer-songwriter Brendan Benson, and the rhythm section of Cincinnati's The Greenhornes—it at first seemed like it was largely an outlet for White. As…
The Raconteurs sophomore effort seems to have come from nowhere. A tactic to avoid criticism or a way to let the music do the talking? Alex Harvey reviews.
And in 2006, when his other band The Raconteurs were touring debut album ‘Broken Boy Soldiers’, they preferred to fill out the set with a bunch of well-chosen covers rather than play much new material (in fact, they previewed just the one during the entire tour – the delirious powerpop rush of ‘Five On The Five’, which rightly finds its way onto the new album).
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For a side project nearly an hour in length, Consolers of the Lonely is quite an accomplishment.