Backward roll

Right at the start limping drums in 4/4 ear, shortly thereafter followed by a bone-dry bass, right then hard angeschlagane electric guitar: Who now thinks he listens to the new album of White Stripes is not far off: The Raconteurs are the joint project of Alternaitv rock gurus Jack White with the so far only moderately famous and successful songwriter Brendan Benson (enhanced by the rhythm section of the band "The greenhorns). How fruitful is this cooperation, already shows the single "Steady as she goes": As a potential party-hopper in the mold of "Seven Nation Army", it screams then, the regulator continues to rotate to the right.

After this spectacular start but the actual role begins only backwards: A raid by Rocknroll the beginning 70s where Led Zeppelin still unpunished to rolling drums niegeln the guitar and could dramatically make the organ sound. In fact, songs like "Broken Boy Soldiers" or "Intimate Secretary" would have found on an album this band space, only they would then not have been three, but at least nine minutes. Furthermore, the early Fleetwood Mac are (still without women) cited (who wants to verify the times themselves which was, for example, "then play on" Fleetwood Mac recommended). Although the whole is not reinventing the wheel, but Benson and White to quote the glam prog hard rock without creating ape to curtail escalating song structures without betraying the spirit and the essence of this era in 33 expresses exciting minutes to pack.

A short, but very intense ride in the early days of the Dinosaur Rocks. Allen nostalgics and those who want to be it was warmly recommended this splendid album!