If there's one thing that keeps Brothers from jumping the gap between a "very good" album and a "great" album, it's the running time. Rex stomper, while on penultimate track and Jerry Butler cover "Never Gonna Give You Up", he lets loose over a shimmering Motown melody. Even more surprising is how good he is at it, too: he's controlled and natural on "Everlasting Light", vibing with high-pitched restraint and turning the tune into a lo-fi T. The man has honed his speaker-blowing howl for so long now, it's genuinely surprising to hear him try another vocal style. Most striking on Brothers is Auerbach's incorporation of falsetto. "Too Afraid to Love You" feels spooked-out thanks to Auerbach's distanced vocals and some haunted harpsichord, while the Jock Jams beat on "Howlin' For You" and "Black Mud"'s winking nod to CCR's "Green River" find the Keys in an uncharacteristically playful mode. Instead, Brothers finds Carney and Auerbach augmenting their sound with some new stylistic tics, suggesting that they might've learned something from working with Danger Mouse. But you don't come to the Black Keys for reinvention. The former is boilerplate Black Keys, complete with a burned-barn riff for a chorus and lyrics about wayward women the latter, the only Danger Mouse-produced cut on the record, features a whistle-heavy melody that wouldn't have sounded out of place on Attack & Release. The Keys haven't undergone a drastic sonic shift or anything- at this point, no one is going to mistake them for anyone else, especially if they keep putting out songs like Brothers' first two singles, "Next Girl" and "Tighten Up".
Brothers is the loosest they've sounded since 2004's Rubber Factory.
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After self-producing and recording their first four records in makeshift studios, the duo completed Attack & Release (2008) in a professional studio and hired producer Danger Mouse, a frequent collaborator with the band.New challenges, as well as time apart from their main outfit, have served these guys well.
Their third album, Rubber Factory (2004), received critical acclaim and boosted the band's profile, eventually leading to a record deal with major label Nonesuch Records in 2006. Over the next decade, the Black Keys built an underground fanbase through extensive touring of small clubs, frequent album releases and music festival appearances, and substantial licensing of their songs.
After signing with indie label Alive, they released their debut album, The Big Come Up (2002), which earned them a new deal with Fat Possum Records. The band's raw blues rock sound draws heavily from Auerbach's blues influences, including Junior Kimbrough, Howlin' Wolf, and Robert Johnson.įriends since childhood, Auerbach and Carney founded the group after dropping out of college. The duo began as an independent act, recording music in basements and self-producing their records, before they eventually emerged as one of the most popular garage rock artists during a second wave of the genre's revival in the 2010s. The group consists of Dan Auerbach (guitar, vocals) and Patrick Carney (drums). The Black Keys are an American rock band formed in Akron, Ohio, in 2001.
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