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Customer Reviews
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Great For Summer
I was skeptical about this album after being slightly disappointed with their first album. Not that it was terrible, I just didn't think it was as great as what some had raved-- an amateur, first round-effort, if you will, some good songs and some bad.
But I was pleasantly surprised to see this album is solid from beginning to end. The guitars are heavy, which is great, but there are also violins and mandolins and heavy, vintage sounding keyboards(slightly Edgar Winter-styled) littered throughout, giving it that "retro" sound. It's like a strange blend of The White Stripes, The Band and Exile On Main Street-era Rolling Stones. This is fun rocking music you need to have for your summer soundtrack.
Key Tracks:
Title Track:Consoler of The Lonely(Rockin' in and out of different time measures)
Salute Your Solution(Rockin', good keyboard)
Carolina Drama(tells an epic tale in Dylan fashion. Hence the ode to "John Wesley Harding", civil war era cover art.)
Old Enough(Acoustic Guitars and violins)
Rich Kid's Blues(Anthemic, again, great keys)
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Consolers Of The Lonely Review
This album is a lot better than The Raconteurs first album. There are more genres of music blended into The Raconteurs original first album sound. There also are better solos and better songs on this album. If you like The Raconteurs first album, you will abosolutly need to get this one.
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This album goes to eleven!
I liked the second album a lot more than their debut. I think Jack White unleashed the inner blues rock god in him! There is a lot more energy on the CD. It's just raw, edgy R&B, rock and punk music all rolled into one. His band is very talented. I saw them in concert in Austin, TX at Stubb's BBQ and was blown away! Buy this CD. It will be one of 2008's top 100 list, if they still keep lists.
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Amazing - Like a Drug That Induces Stupor
Just completing this album in the first week of March the band surprisingly unleashes it without any foreknowledge so that nobody, "the fans, the press, radio, etc., has an upperhand on anyone else regarding it's availability, reception, or perception," said Jack White, in Rolling Stone.
"Consolers of the Lonely" kicks of the album with the title song "Consoler of the Lonely." This songs tambourine shakes and shuddering bass adding to a carefree and high-spirited kick off comes off well as the first song on the new album.
"Salute Your Solution," the first single for the album is a fast-paced stomper starting with a strong Jack White guitar riff before a muffled bass riff kicks in halfway through, adding a psychedelic twinge. The album then breaks into a mixture of 4 stars and five star songs. Those I consider to be 5 star songs in the first half of the album, including the two just mentioned, are "Old Enough", "The Switch and the Spur", and "Top Yourself."
For the second half of the album the songs I gave 5 stars to included: "Rich Kid Blues", "These Stones Will Shout", and "Carolina Drama", which is a slower, blusier song as White tells the story of a troubled boy with "blue tatoos" named Billy, is one of my favorites.
Overall, this is an astonishing follow-up for White and his second band.
The songs show this band as having or showing their ability or achievement in the rock music genre, although the band is clearly influenced by a number of different genres that come out in their music.
The Raconteurs album definitely shows the effective and forceful, but not forced music the band is capable of producing. Each song stands strongly by itself, but, the combination is a contour of a body constructed so as to offer minimum resistance to a fluid flow. It all comes together perfectly.
This is an album that will stay in my music rotation for a long time to come. I look forward to the album growing on me as well, as I listen to it even more. Job very well done.
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Jack White is Genius
I like this CD a bit better than the debut Raconteurs disc, though I like them both. It's an interesting departure from Jack's "White Stripes" efforts. Saw them live at Jazz Fest promoting the album as well -- excellent performance.
Before we completely bid adieu to our nation's birthday, we here at Gizmodo would like to give one more shout out to the fourth of July. Seems like even the stars in the sky can't resist putting up a display for good ol' American freedom. These red-white-and-blue pictures of Supernova remnant SN 1006 is what's left over from a star explosion first observed by humans in year 1006.
