THE DEAD WEATHER ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM DODGE & BURN
SPECIAL DODGE & BURN VAULT PACKAGE AVAILABLE NOW
Way back in October 2013, The Dead Weather and Third Man Records announced an incredibly special 7” featuring “Open Up (That’s Enough)” b/w “Rough Detective” as part of Vault Package #18. These two tracks were a fierce battle cry heralding the announcement of a brand new Dead Weather album that was to be released in a revolutionary fashion. Teased out over the past year and a half via a series of 7” singles, the physical versions of which were ONLY available via The Vault (Third Man’s one-of-a-kind subscription mail-order service), the band promised this would culminate in a brand new album in 2015. The third Dead Weather LP would be a full length album comprised not only of the previously released 7” singles, but newly recorded, previously-unheard material. Today, The Dead Weather officially announce their new album Dodge & Burn.
Dodge & Burn will be released worldwide in September 2015 on Third Man Records and will feature eight brand new songs, along with the four previously released tracks remixed and remastered. Alison Mosshart, Jack White, Dean Fertita and Jack Lawrence spent their rare and sporadic free moments over the past year recording together in Nashville. With the members of the band heavily involved in other projects, The Dead Weather will not be touring in support of the new album. Thankfully the thick and heavy Dodge & Burn will satisfy your urges for the dark magic that is The Dead Weather for a very long time.
- A limited edition Dodge & Burn LP on Inclement Weather vinyl (that is to say opaque yellow with black ‘debris’) housed in a soft-touch embossed sleeve featuring metallic ink and a Vault-exclusive alternate cover designed by Rob Jones, also featuring a limited edition bonus poster inside.
- The only physical version of the new Dead Weather 7” and single from Dodge & Burn on yellow vinyl with black debris.
- A deck of custom Dead Weather playing cards designed by Silent Giants featuring the band members as the King, Queen, Jack and Joker. Previously released in limited numbers and now, due to popular demand, re-issued for the Vault only with new packaging artwork.
Subscriptions for Vault Package #25 are open until July 31st, visit http://thirdmanrecords.com/vault to sign up now! And if you need a reminder of what you’re in for, here are some clips from the previously released tracks from the upcoming album:
So. Excited. THANK YOUUUUUUU
Raw: Depends on how you define “new”. Heck, the very first Vault package had a re-packaged version of an album already released. But the record in that package had a different SOUND, rather than colored vinyl. And the packages with singles compilations contained already-released material, but were a great way to hear music that you might not have bought otherwise. And then there’ve been the demo versions of songs already released but, again, different SOUND. It wasn’t until Vault 19 with the Elephant singles that they put out a package that contained otherwise available music that was different only because of colored vinyl and packaging. That was the beginning, really, of Vault packages predominantly being fancier versions of SOUNDS that we already had or could obtain in plain old black vinyl. It hasn’t been every package since then, but it’s been enough to begin to feel like a pattern. Two of those packages (Lazaretto and Van Lear Rose) contain elements that still make them special (to me, at least, I love the book in Vault 20 and can’t stop smiling about the dvd in 24). The Bonnaroo package could go either way, depending on whether or not you already had a “sketchy” rip of the web broadcast. Many of us already had “sketchy” rips of the MTV broadcast of the Amazonian Lights show, but then they went and included a record of the full show, making that package spectacular. But this one falls in the category of the Elephant package— Satisfying to the folks who get excited about having pretty colors and packaging, whether or not there’s really enough substance to go along with the prettiness to make it worth $60. I’m starting to think Jack should go ahead and do what he talked about (joked? threatened?) in chat a couple years ago and release a fancy colored record with no music on it. If they put it in a Vault package and said it was limited and Swank or Cam wrote a breathless enough announcement about it, it does seem that a lot of people might clamor for it. It’d be an interesting experiment.
I thought Vault items were always new???
@stacelings, maybe he got a new 6 string bass? :-p
Um, and Happy Birthday to a Mr. Jack White 3 – Yes I said THREE – days early.
Why does LJ have 6 fingers on his right hand all of a sudden?
Amazeballs,
Dang I need a metal Dw lapel pin those guns are hard to track down. Maybe they will happen but just in the store or something.
Other than the long awaited TDW 3rd album, I gotta say… I’m also stoked with the possibility of new Dead Weather merchandise like shirts and pins! Awesome, guys!
“We don’t need no stinking badges” … but we do need this new Dead Weather album!!! Tonight is gonna be a Dead Weather yellow 45 party at my house! I love that they do this with new releases now.:-)