THE RACONTEURS will release a new collection of tunes, 14 in total, on March 25. The music, titled Consolers of the Lonely, will be out on vinyl, CD, and digitally all in one week. It contains 14 new recordings and is being released globally on Third Man Records in conjunction with marketing/distribution partners, XL Recordings and Warner Brothers Records. The album was mastered and completed in the first week of March.

According to an official statement, “With this release, The Raconteurs are forgoing the usual months of lead time for press and radio set up, as well as forgoing the all important “first week sales”.  We wanted to explore the idea of releasing an album everywhere at once and THEN marketing and promoting it thereafter.  The Raconteurs would rather this release not be defined by it’s first weeks sales, pre-release promotion, or by someone defining it FOR YOU before you get to hear it.”

On top of that, “There will be a video up on the internet for the first single, “Salute Your Solution”, on the 25th as well, provided it gets edited in time. We just filmed it the other day!”

source: smnnews