WATCH: The Raconteurs Return with “Help Me Stranger”

Jack White and company get weird in Japan for the forthcoming “Help Us Stranger” full-length. 
WATCH: The Raconteurs Return with “Help Me Stranger”

Jack White and company get weird in Japan for the forthcoming “Help Us Stranger” full-length. 

Words: Alison Story

photo by Joshua Mellin

May 17, 2019

Just when you think Jack White might mess around and take a vacation, that Midwestern work ethic kicks in and he’s back at it again. White’s workaholism has manifested in the return of The Raconteurs, who are set to release Help Us Stranger, the band’s first full-length since 2008, on June 21.

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The group has revealed a new music video, “Help Me Stranger,” which finds White, Brendan Benson, and the boys in Japan, where performance clips are interspersed with images of the band just hanging out and being random and getting weird. There’s an abandoned baby involved.

Watch the video below.