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£20.99 – Limited edition white vinyl version of Help Us Stranger with an alternate cover and hand-screen-printed LP jacket
£16.99 – LP
The Raconteurs (Jack White, Brendan Benson, Jack Lawrence, and Patrick Keeler) have announced the release of their long-awaited new album, Help Us Stranger, which is the GRAMMY Award-winning rock band’s third studio LP and first new album in more than a decade.
Help Us Stranger 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 White’s uncompromising songcraft and the band’s steadfast musical muscle. With Help Us Stranger, The Raconteurs have returned right when they are needed most, unified and invigorated with boundless ambition, infinite energy and a collectivist spirit operating at the peak of its considerable powers, once again creating a sound and fury only possible when all four of its members come together.
White and Benson wrote all the songs on Help Us Stranger except one cover, “Hey Gyp (Dig The Slowness)” which was written by Donovan. Recorded at Third Man Studio in Nashville, TN, the album was produced by The Raconteurs and engineered by Joshua V. Smith. Longtime friends and musical collaborators helped make Help Us Stranger, including keyboardist/multi-instrumentalist Dean Fertita (The Dead Weather, Queens Of The Stone Age) and Lillie Mae Rische and her sister Scarlett Rische (Jypsi). The album was mixed by Vance Powell and The Raconteurs at Blackbird Studios in Nashville.
Tracklisting:
A1. Bored And Razed
A2. Help Me Stranger
A3. Only Child
A4. Don’t Bother Me
A5. Shine The Light On Me
A6. Somedays (I Don’t Feel Like Trying)
B1. Hey Gyp (Dig The Slowness)
B2. Sunday Driver
B3. Now That You’re Gone
B4. Live A Lie
B5. What’s Yours Is Mine
B6. Thoughts and Prayers