The Raconteurs Arrive at Pace!
Yikes – new album out next week apparently! Fuck me they’ve moved fast on this one. Apparently they only mastered the thing a couple of weeks ago and just decided to fire the thing out there without the benefit of pre-release marketing and see how it went.
According to the lengthy message they put out on their site and MySpace and so on, this is for a couple of reasons. Firstly, so people can react to the music on their own terms, rather than have fannies like myself tell them what to think about it, which makes sense. The other is to stay one step ahead of any potential leaks, and make sure that people get the record on the right terms, in the right quality and all at the same time.
So there are no preview tracks, nothing is posted on MySpace and hence that’s about all I can tell you, apart from the fact that the record itself is going to be called Consolers of the Lonely. And making the obvious point that The Raconteurs are a fucking brilliant band, and that I am hugely, hugely excited to hear their new stuff on Monday 25th.
All I can offer on top of this is to post a rather excellent acoustic version of Steady As She Goes which sounds for all the world like it comes from a radio session of some sort, although I’ve no idea which one. Anyhow, enjoy, and join me in salivating with anticipation.
The Raconteurs – Steady as She Goes (Acoustic)
They are rather good aren’t they: The Raconteurs – Store Bought Bones
this is truly exciting – i hope mr benson has an album coming out soon though – and i hope it’s a step back towards the brilliance of lapalco.
It’s great news. I saw them at T on the Fringe a couple of years ago and it was one of the best gigs I’ve ever been to.
yeah – saw them at ABC in Glasgow and was fantastic – Jack White can playing fucking guitar! but mr benson is the man for me – what a songwriter.
I was checking to see if Web Sheriff left a comment on your post, like he did on mine, to thank you for postingn about the Racs.
What do you think that’s about? I just posted an open letter, asking WS what the deal is, but it looks like the RIAA is going to start getting super aggressive with mp3 blogs.
Are you worried? I’d appreciate it if you would have readers come to my post and comment–I really want to see what folks think about this, and I know WS is reading my blog regularly.
Here’s the post:
http://berkeleyplace.wordpress.com/2008/03/24/dear-web-sheriff-open-letter-to-a-watchdog/
That’s such an oddly ambiguous comment. Either they are bizarrely trying to develop a soft and fluffy side in order to give their tantrums a bit more moral authority in future, or they are just trying to make sure that we all know that they are watching us. Weird behaviour.
That comment on your post from the girl who said they contacted her on a couple of occasions for just verbally reviewing albums pre-release was downright spooky. Christ that’s worrying behaviour.