The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely

Anybody who has followed Jack White's online screeds and offstage brawls knows that The White Stripes' mastermind can tend to get a little, well, defensive when he's challenged (and sometimes even when he's not), but this trait hasn't always surfaced on record -- at least not in the way he and his merry band of Raconteurs do on their second album, Consolers Of The Lonely. At the very least, this bubbling blend of bizarro blues, rustic progressive rock, fractured pop, and bludgeoning guitars is a finger in the eye to anyone who dared call the band a mere power pop trifle, proof that The Raconteurs are a rock & roll band, but it's not just the sound of the record that's defiant. Read More