The Raconteurs release ‘Help Us Stranger’ their third album (their first in eleven years) (2019)

The Raconteurs' 'Help Us Stranger' is their third album (after a 11-year hiatus) featuring members Jack White, Brendan Benson plus Jack Lawrence (bass) and Patrick Keeler (drums) and released on June 21, 2019 by Third Man Records

The Raconteurs

NME



a smooth and bluesy ride to provide a very analogue album for a digital world

DIY



Theirs is a union as progressive as a tin can on a piece of string, as zeitgeist-chasing as an old man playing shuffleboard Variety

...where frenzied guitars carry the moment and the band’s metropolitan muse, Detroit, gets an early shout-out.

The Raconteurs - Help Us Stranger

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In ‘World’s Strongest Man,’ Gaz Coombes dissects his own masculinity. Picking up les ‘Fleurs du Mâle’ from the ‘Supergrass’

Gaz Coombes' 'World's Strongest Man' is his third solo album produced by Ian Davenport and released on May 4, 2018 by Hot Fruit / Caroline International

Gaz Coombes

BBC



Another track which again tackles the thorny issue of men and their world view and even touches on

NME



also as a male who feels compelled more generally to be an active participant in deconstructing and ... NPR

The implications of hiding intense personal fears are even more complicated on the brisk synth-pop single

Gaz Coombes - World's Strongest Man

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Tracklist :

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3 . Purple Rain (1985)

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5 . 1987 VMAs

6 . I Wish U Heaven (1988)

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8 . Purple Rain (Arsenio Hall Show, 1991)

9 . My Name Is Prince (1992)

10 . (w/ the NPG, Arsenio Hall Show, 1993)

11 . Face Down (Chris Rock Show, 1997)

12 . Stauros (w/ NPG Essence, 1998)

13 . The Greatest Romance Ever Sold (Dutch Television, 1999)

14 . NPG Music Club Intro (2001)

15 . The Everlasting Now (Tonight Show with Jay Leno, 2002)

16 . Baby I’m a star, Shhh (Hong Kong Harbor Fest

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