The Raconteurs Have a New Album Coming Out...NEXT WEEK?!

Tuesday, March 18, 2008 | 10:49 AM

Um, wow, The Raconteurs are releasing a new album one week from today. This was announced yesterday on The Raconteurs website. On March 25, Consolers of the Lonely will be available in all formats (vinyl, CD, digital).

For anyone familiar with Jack White, co-frontman of the Raconteurs, you should know that he is a bit of a music purist. He still records on tape and still believes that an album should be listened to as a complete album (let's face it, MP3's and iPods have turned us into a singles world). In order to prevent any album cuts from prematurely leaking to the internet (which is a near impossibility these days), The Raconteurs made the surprise announcement yesterday without any press, publicity, blog-fare, etc.