'Horehound' is the debut album from Dead Weather - the alternative-rock supergroup comprising Jack White (White Stripes), Alison Mosshart (The Kills), Dean Fertita (Queens Of The Stone Age) and Jack Lawrence (The Raconteurs). With a wide range of talent at their disposal, the group deliver a thundering, raucous and swaggering record. Rock and blues influences are utilised in a distinctive and individual manner, with Mosshart's vocals being the standout feature of their sound. Includes the singles 'Hang You From The Heavens' and 'Treat Me Like Your Mother'.

May 2009

The rock four-piece consists of celebrated musicians Dean Fertita (Queens Of The Stone Age), "Little" Jack Lawrence (The Raconteurs, The Greenhornes), Alison Mosshart (The Kills) and Jack White (The White Stripes, The Raconteurs).

"The 11 songs on the album...are spare and sexy, with the vocals often distorted or submerged beneath grinding, snaky rhythms." – The New York Times

" a bluesy blend of psych-rock guitar, alternately stark and explosive rhythms and Mosshart's sultry-to-siren vocal... – Rolling Stone

• Mojo - "...as you hit repeat to hear HOREHOUND for the umpteenth time, what's remarkable is that these 11 tunes, with their sonic curveballs and casual vim, suggest that a second Dead Weather LP would be almost as welcome as The White Stripes' seventh"
  Alternative Press (p.126) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "There's no denying the quartet know how to work a mighty groove as well as set up atmospheres similar to bands remanded to the faded pages of old record-collecting magazines"
  Paste - "The foursome weave a dizzying web of traditions into their own rough-hewn sound, dragging vestiges of alt-rock, punk and blues through the mud to achieve an album rife with brash dissonance"
  Rolling Stone - "With Raconteurs bassist Jack Lawrence and guitarist-organist Dean Fertita helping out, the pair cut Horehound in three weeks, but these are all top-notch songs, rooted in Seventies dirtbag rock"
  Pitchfork - "The songs on Horehound don't so much rock as writhe, reinstituting the idea of the blues as a sinister, morally corrupting force that's as much the province of voodoo priests and witch doctors as musicians"

Formed in 2009, the Dead Weather is the second all-star side project from Jack White. Featuring the Kills' Alison Mosshart on lead vocals, Raconteur Jack Lawrence on bass, Dean Fertita on guitar, and White on drums, the band trades in a similar fuzz-and-stomp style to that of the White Stripes, but it's Mosshart's devilish vocals that give the band it's unique identity. That and the fact that the newly minted guitar god White pounds the skins here as well. The band's debut appeared on White's own Third Man label.