The Raconteurs
Broke Boy Soldiers (2006)

The Raconteurs album Broken Boy Soldiers is there debut album, rarely has a band’s first instalment attracted so much hype, this was due mainly to the mouth watering combination of the bands two front men, Brendan Benson and Jack White. With Benson’s rock pop background blended with White’s Progressive Rock the out come could only turn out something special.
The album kicks of with the single “Steady As She Goes”, With White taking up the majority of the vocals. The chorus has all the ingredients to launch into a power rock chant but is thankfully cut short in a superb way witch only helps the track in its simplistic genius.
Also the Bensons led love song “together” is a great example of the way the to men’s vocals support other and another, with White’s high wane and Benson’s softer tone. Every song is different be it the mood or the tempo, providing a totally unexpected experience. This should make the album impossible to listen to, yet in some bizarre great way it makes this album so much more.
Collectively this album is faultless, a superb examples of to masters at work, not forgetting the presents of Jack Lawrence on bass and Patrick Keeler on drums who even though are over shadowed by the front men still provide all the right ingredients to make a classic. All the worries of a White dominated band are out the window. Every now and then an album comes along which changes you, the music connects on so many levels leaving you with an experience that can not be described only felt.

In the words of the boys themselves… remember a time when all was not fine and up from the dingy sewers came four lousy thieves who flourished like trees behold The Raconteurs…


+ Review by Pat

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