Brothers
Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney\'s muscular, blues-based indie riffs broke through to the rock mainstream with *Brothers*. Recorded at Alabama\'s legendary Muscle Shoals Sound Studio during a period of intra-band tension related to Auerbach\'s nascent solo career and Carney\'s fractious divorce, the duo\'s sixth album puts that angst directly into the songs. The combination of Southern rock grooves and biting lyrics is most potent on the grinding single \"Howlin\' for You\" and the bass-heavy throb of \"Next Girl.”
After working with Danger Mouse on their last full-length, Black Keys sound re-energized and playful on their loosest record in years.
The Black Keys’ sixth album, Brothers, gets off to such a weird start that it’s remarkable the record rallies as strongly as it does. The grubby disco beat and trembling falsetto of opener “Everlasting Light” is so off-model that it almost seems designed to scare longtime fans away, and the song that follows, “Next…
The album is as ferocious and soulful an exploration of contemporary blues as anything in recent memory.
Over the last decade, the Black Keys have quietly revealed themselves to be an incredibly consistent workhorse band.
Album No 6 from the Black Keys shows plenty of life, but leans too heavily on howling bar-room blues riffing, finds <strong>Will Dean</strong>
The Black Keys - Brothers review: A new chapter for one of rock's most consistent bands