The Raconteurs , Consolers of the Lonely
THE RACONTEURSConsolers of the Lonely(XL)Herald Rating: * * * * Finding of fact: White Stripes main man's other band delivers exciting minute serving of retro-rifferamaThat Jack White fellow for certain is putting himself about a moment. At that place he is on the cover of Wheeling Harlan Fiske Stone with the Rolling Stones due to his edgar Albert Guest slot in concert moving picture Shine a Lighting. There he was playing Dose in rock and roll bio parody Walk Hard: The John Dewey Coxswain Account. In that location was that Elwyn Brooks White Stripe album shoemaker's last year and today here's the second album, after 2006's Broken Boy Soldiers, from his other, less colour-co-ordinated, more rhythmically-gifted band, the Raconteurs. And spell on the debut he submerged himself into the Raconteurs' twin-frontman come up with Brendan Benson, here he's utterly prominent. That makes Consolers closer to Stripes territory than the 70s sideroads they explored on Soldiers. And one of the gaffer pleasures of this often-incendiary compendium is guess precisely which one of the two co-writers, co-producers are vocalizing when they are trading lines, whether it's the garage rock-and-roll sprint of Salute Your Solution or the rustic folk-rock of Old Enough.
Oddly sufficiency, it's Benson out front end on around of the more too Stripes-like book of Numbers like The Switch and the Spur, which with its mariachi horns and spaghetti western plot of ground could be a sequel to the WS' Icky Pound of stopping point year.Just while Whiteness, and in particular his guitar, is this album's brightest flare, it also seems the crutch for around of the weaker numbers pool. The stronger songs seem to roll off the ivories - the likes of the piano-powered You Don't Understand Me, the Elton Johnesque Many Sunglasses of Shirley Temple Black and the Stonesy Draw This Mantle Off - come upkeep of Benson's more measured advance. Simply it's hard to fault the slew vintage vitality of their big-riff numbers, which start right from the
