CD - Consolers Of The Lonely - The Raconteurs

10:32am Friday 18th April 2008

CONSOLERS Of The Lonely is the second album from the Jack White and Brendan Benson-led supergroup The Raconteurs.

The album is a mix of 60s rock, garage and Beatles-esque pop, and should instantly appeal to fans of The White Stripes and The Yardbirds.

This is a much stronger, deeper and more textured album than the band's first offering, Broken Boy Soldiers, which was good and had plenty of decent songs but just lacked staying power.

Where Broken Boy Soldiers was more instant, Consolers Of The Lonely is definitely an album that grows on you - and with most albums that grow on you, they turn out much better in the end.

There are a number of stand-out tracks but the best are Top Yourself, Attention, Rich Kid Blues and the current single Salute Your Solution.

Stand-out tracks aside, however, there is little coherence to this album, it jumps from style to style with each song sounding different to the last with one even sounding like Duran Duran.

If you can get past this and see the album as just a collection of oddball rock, blues and country, you should like it. Either that or wait until the next White Stripes album comes out.

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