The Raconteurs - Help Us StrangerThe Raconteurs Jack White, Brendan Benson, Jack Lawrence, and Patrick Keeler release their long awaited new album, Help Us Stranger. It's their first new album in more than a decade. The album sees the mighty combo reassembled, stronger and perhaps even more vital than ever before as they continue to push rock 'n' roll forward into its future, bonding prodigious riffs, blues power, sinewy psychedelia, Detroit funk, and Nashville soul via Benson and

Along with the group's debut single Gangsters

released from the tyranny of semantics into the freedom and hopefulness of universality-ofconnection

today the album is considered an indispensable masterpiece

Most of the tracks were written and recorded there

Having perfected their craft sharing stages with luminaries such as The Jesus And Mary Chain and The Kills (Alison Mosshart handpicked the band to join them on US and UK tours)

' In Plain Sight'

spherical synthesizers 

" the album's title track was a huge jamaican hit

LP - coloured vinyl

Dan Treacy provides the antidote to the opening of the ill-fated Disneyland Paris and the first McDonald's in China - it's a white knuckle ride through his innermost hopes and fears with off stage giggling

In an era of information overload and endless image cultivation

Killing Joke and Joy Division