Help Us Stranger somehow manages to meet the colossal expectations put on a ten year hiatus from a hotly anticipated and beloved super-group. Experimental and proggy without the potentially off-putting abstraction The Raconteurs' third record demands your attention, delivering forty solid minutes of rock and roll music you may have forgot you needed. What's exciting then in the long awaited release of Help Us Stranger is not so much how familiar these twelve songs sound, nor how comfortable Benson, Keeler, Lawrence, and White sound together, but how surprisingly fresh their take on classic rock sounds.
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