Latest from The Black Keys and The Raconteurs PLUS Huge Restock List

Hey Backbeaters! It’s Friday and it’s a long weekend! You want need some new tunes and we’ve got you covered! The latest albums from The Raconteurs and The Black Keys have arrived. There’s also a big list of restocks and additions just past all the new release info. Dig in below and then head on down to the shop and browse our great selection of new and used vinyl.

On to the new releases!

The Raconteurs – Help Us Stranger

Help Us Stranger, which is the Grammy Award-winning rock band’s third studio LP and first new album in more than a decade. It sees the mighty combo reassembled, stronger and perhaps even more vital than ever before as they continue to push rock ‘n’ roll forward into its future, bonding prodigious riffs, blues power, sinewy psychedelia, Detroit funk, and Nashville soul via Benson and White’s uncompromising songcraft and the band’s steadfast musical muscle. With Help Us Stranger, The Raconteurs have returned right when they are needed most, unified and invigorated with boundless ambition, infinite energy and a collectivist spirit operating at the peak of its considerable powers, once again creating a sound and fury only possible when all four of its members come together. White and Benson wrote all the songs on Help Us Stranger except one cover, “Hey Gyp (Dig The Slowness),” which was written by Donovan. Recorded at Third Man Studio in Nashville, TN, the album was produced by The Raconteurs and engineered by Joshua V. Smith. Longtime friends and musical collaborators helped make Help Us Stranger, including keyboardist/multi-instrumentalist Dean Fertita (The Dead Weather, Queens of the Stone Age) and Lillie Mae Rische and her sister Scarlett Rische. The album was mixed by Vance Powell and The Raconteurs at Blackbird Studios in Nashville.

Black Keys – Let’s Rock

The Black Keys’ “Let’s Rock” is their ninth studio album. The long-awaited album, their first in five years, is a return to the straightforward rock of the singer/guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney’s early days as a band. Auerbach says, “When we’re together we are The Black Keys, that’s where that real magic is, and always has been since we were sixteen.” The Black Keys’ thirty-one city North American tour begins September 23. “Let’s Rock” was written, tracked live, and produced by Auerbach and Carney at Easy Eye Sound studio in Nashville and features backing vocals from Leisa Hans and Ashley Wilcoxson. “The record is like a homage to electric guitar,” says Carney. “We took a simple approach and trimmed all the fat like we used to.”

Restocks and Additions to our new vinyl selection here at Backbeat for this week.

In the tiki, tiki, tiki, tiki, tiki room