Rating: NN
Take a few bored musicians out of their regular group context and put them together in a studio filled with a variety of instruments and what they’ll produce likely won’t sound much different from the Raconteurs’ Consolers Of The Lonely.
It wouldn’t be hard to imagine each tune arising from a riff on a trumpet, fiddle, piano, keyboard or guitar played through a vintage pedal and then someone chimes in “Hmm, that’s just like a mariachi horn bit – let’s try a western number about a guy on a horse.”
It’s a much more musically diverse album than the Raconteurs have done before, but there are many more misses than hits among these 14 tracks. Because Jack White is involved, this demo-quality studio jam will get far more attention than it warrants.
