It's out next week and it will be available everywhere and it will be titled Consolers Of The Lonely. And doesn't Jack look a bit weird with his new emo cut?They say in the press release (which can be seen on their Tron-like website) that there are 14 new recordings on the album, which I think is excellent news. I thought their 2006 debut, Broken Boy Soldiers, whilst a very solid album, was just way too short. One of those recordings is Salute Your Solution, the first single from the album, which will have its video released next week also. They also say, bless their corporate socks, that it is NOT a reaction to a potential leak, meaning that it most definitely IS a reaction to a potential leak.
They will do some tour dates in America starting from April, and I imagine that they will come to the UK around the time they do a T In The Park and Oxegen double header (mid-July basically). I would be very keen on seeing them, since that the White Stripes gig in London last year got cancelled to the unfortunate anxiety illness that Meg had.
Of course, The Raconteurs are not the only band to have done this sort of thing recently. Radiohead started the trend in October last year with In Rainbows and Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails has done this his own Ghosts record a couple of weeks ago and the last Saul Williams record in November.
And to think that this all started as a rumour on At Ease, a Radiohead fan forum. Yikes.
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