Had they written "Fire Walk With Me" in 2003, I can almost guarantee it would have ended with a minute-long cathartic guitar solo. With Let's Rock, we got those formulaic songs unadorned by such presentation, and it really hurt the album in my opinion. But even though I say these things, I still adore those albums because of their presentation. The verses are only there because songs traditionally have verses between the choruses. They do a lot of "marking time", as my friend Robert says: we have to wait through a boring part to get to the exciting part. However, the songs on those albums – particularly Turn Blue – are pure formula dressed up in a wonderfully attractive psychedelic blues-rock package. I never quite clicked with either of the two full-length albums that followed, but starting with Brothers, they managed to perfectly merge their blues-rock sound into a pop style in a way that never felt clichéd.Įl Camino and Turn Blue are my two favorite Black Keys albums. I think Rubber Factory was their creative peak as they managed to achieve so much variety within a distinct (and fairly limited) style. Their early stuff may not have been particularly inventive, but they still managed to carve out their own identity within the blues rock palette. The Black Keys are one of my favorite bands, but I got the sense over the past decade that they were becoming stuck artistically. If they mean "all of the original material was written in the studio", that's a strange way to word it and even as someone who loves minutiae it's kinda useless information anyway.
EASY EYE SOUND STUDIO ADDRESS FULL
They had covers on all of their first three albums, plus two full albums of covers, so saying that "like all of their albums, they wrote all the songs" is incorrect.
In the words of the NME, ‘It’s the soundtrack to the type of party that doesn’t exist anymore, but one you still wish you were cool enough to get the invite to’.įormed in Akron, Ohio in 2001, The Black Keys have released eight studio albums: their debut The Big Come Up (2002), followed by Thickfreakness (2003) and Rubber Factory (2004), along with their releases on Nonesuch Records, Magic Potion (2006), Attack & Release (2008), Brothers (2010), El Camino (2011), and, most recently, Turn Blue (2014) earning the band a total of six Grammy Awards.What a great cover! This press release is kinda odd. Rolling Stone named ‘Lo/Hi’ a “Song You Need to Know” and said, ‘the Keys have officially returned, louder than ever’ and the New York Times calls the song ‘the kind of garage-boogie stomp that the band never left behind’. “We took a simple approach and trimmed all the fat like we used to”.
“The record is like a homage to electric guitar” says Carney. Let’s Rock was written, tracked live, and produced by Auerbach and Carney at Easy Eye Sound studio in Nashville and features backing vocals from Leisa Hans and Ashley Wilcoxson. The album includes the hit single ‘Lo/Hi’.
Auerbach says, “When we’re together we are The Black Keys, that’s where that real magic is, and always has been since we were sixteen”. The Black Keys’ long-awaited ninth studio album, Let’s Rock, their first in five years, is a return to the straightforward rock of the singer/guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney’s early days as a band.
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