Posted on 05 February 2010

Get excited, people. The Dead Weather, one of the two most exciting super-groups since The Traveling Wilburys (tied with the awesome Them Crooked Vultures), have announced that their second album could be finished as soon as April. This means that we may only have to wait two months to be treated to another record of head-noddingly brilliant, cigar-smokingly cool alternative blues-rock.

Frontman Jack White (of The White Stripes and The Raconteurs) said in an interview with Triple J Radio: “We’re finishing recording the last couple of songs. I’m gonna start mixing in the next couple of weeks”. When asked about the sound of the new album, White claimed it would be “bluesier and heavier than we ever thought,” and also noted that he’d be taking a break from the drums to handle lead vocals on the album’s lead single, “Blue Blood Blues”.

The Dead Weather is comprised of Jack White, Alison Mosshart of The Kills, Dean Fertita from The Queens Of The Stone Age, and The Raconteurs’ Jack Lawrence, and formed in March last year. July saw the release of their debut album, Horehound, which was one of the best albums of 2009 and saw the group become one of the hottest new acts of last year.

The release of the impending second album will be supported by a 13-date Spring tour, including an appearance at the legendary Californian festival Coachella in April. Tickets for the tour went public today.

Horehound was one of the edgiest and coolest rock albums of 2009, so watch this space and start getting pumped up for another instalment of that Dead Weather magic, ladies and gents.

Tom Hoare