"The Black Keys take the next step in their evolution on Brothers," says the AP of the band's latest Nonesuch release, out now. "Just about every song has something that makes you want to hit the back button and hear again. That's a rare feat." The duo's hometown paper, the Akron Beacon Journal, calls it "the Keys' funkiest, grooviest record yet and a continuation of their desire to continually stretch their own musical boundaries." Interview says they "they skillfully incorporate elements of soul, psychedelia, and even hip-hop into their earthy sound." Rolling Stone and the Times of London each give Brothers four stars.
"The Black Keys take the next step in their evolution on Brothers," says the Associated Press of the band's latest Nonesuch release, "an album of moody, atmospheric songs most at home in a scuzzy nightclub circa 1972." The album is set for release tomorrow.
Following their previous released, Attack & Release, succeeding solo albums, and their hip-hop collaboration Blakroc, the duo, Dan Auerbach, who celebrated his 31st birthday on Friday, and Patrick Carney, "put what they learned into Brothers and have come up with their smoothest album yet," says AP reviewer Chris Talbott. "This time out Auerbach and Carney have perfected their own brand of slow, down-and-dirty red-eyed soul."
Talbot concludes: "Just about every song has something that makes you want to hit the back button and hear again. That's a rare feat."
Read the complete AP review in the San Francisco Chronicle at sfgate.com.
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Rolling Stone gives the album four stars, describing the duo as "a two-man combo with a big-band mind." Reviewer David Fricke calls the album "a thick, dirty racket, over-dubbed but never overstuffed." The magazine also goes on the road and behind the scenes with Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney of The Black Keys for a feature profile of the band, highlighted on the cover under the headline "The Black Keys Break Through." You'll find it in the latest issue of the magazine, on newsstands now.
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The duo is featured prominently in a profile in their hometown paper, the Akron Beacon Journal. Carney and Auerbach spoke with Beacon Journal music writer Malcolm X Abram about their process for making the new album, the influence of hip-hop and their recent Blakroc project, and the inspiration behind the album's title. Abram says of the album: "Brothers is the Keys' funkiest, grooviest record yet and a continuation of their desire to continually stretch their own musical boundaries."
Read the article at ohio.com.
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Interview magazine calls their Akron roots "one of the most important things to know about The Black Keys." Interview's Colleen Nika spoke with Auerbach and Carney following Saturday's free show in New York City and says of the album: "These new songs see the band achieve new levels of hybridity, as they skillfully incorporate elements of soul, psychedelia, and even hip-hop into their earthy sound." Hear what the band has to say at interviewmagazine.com.
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The Times of London, where the album is out on V2, gives the album four stars, calling it "a stonking 15-track dash through terrain that takes in boogie, soul, funk, gospel and, of course, the blues." Says reviewer Dan Cairns: "There is scarcely an ounce of fat here, further evidence that, six albums in, the pair remain as lean and hungry as ever ... More of the same this is not." Read the review at entertainment.timesonline.co.uk.
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