Nearly six months after announcing that they’d be releasing a new record, The Raconteurs finally unveiled its title and release date.
Due to drop June 21 via Third Man Records (obviously), the album is titled Help Us Stranger. The 12 track LP includes the previously shared “Sunday Driver” and “Now That You’re Gone,” both of which were written by members Jack White and Brendan Benson and recorded at Third Man Studios (duh). A cover of Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan’s 1965 hit “Hey Gyp (Dig the Slowness)” comes in about halfway through the record.
Queens of the Stone Age’s Dean Fertitia contributed to the album as well as sisters Lillie Mae Rische and Scarlett Rische. Engineering came from Grammy nominee Joshua V. Smith with mixing by Vance Powell at Nashville’s Blackbird Studios.
Help Us Stranger follows the band’s 2008 sophomore full-length Consolers of the Lonely, which was recently reissued for its 10th anniversary.
Read the tracklist and check out the album art for Help Us Stranger and listen to “Sunday Driver” and “Now That You’re Gone” below.
The Raconteurs have announced that they’ll be releasing their first album in over a decade in 2019 and will also release a deluxe reissue of their 2008 album Consolers of the Lonely as part of the Third Man Records Vault series.
