Leaky Raconteur

The new Raconteurs album Broken Boy Soldiers has sprung a leak. So I went out and found it – because I can. And listened to it – as I am wont to do. I was then disappointed – as sometimes will happen. I said, “WTF?! This is sort of disappointing.”

Then it dawned on me that this might be a LTST-GBET (Listen To Several Times - Gets Better Every Time) album and not a AROTB (Amazing Right Off The Bat) album – as some albums are.

So I listened to it again – and again – and again. And low and behold, my disappointment began to wane – as sometimes will happen.

Broken Boy Soldiers has a lot of funk and soul and a healthy dose of 1970s bombast. The overall sound owes more to Brendan Benson’s power-pop sound then Jack White’s thrash or Patrick Keeler/Jack Lawrence’s garage stomp. Some of it sounds a bit tossed together but if they decide to continue with this, in another album or so they will dominate the world – as sometimes will happen.

Stuff to Sample: Check it out right, if you look around the Internets you can find almost all of Broken Boy Soldiers posted on assorted blogs. Or I could make it easy for you. "Level" "Together" "Hands" "Yellow Sun" "Steady, As She Goes" "Store Bought Bones" and the super bonus of the Raconteurs covering David Bowie's "It Ain't Easy"