The Black Keys "get bigger and even better" with Attack & Release, says the Boston Globe. The duo's collaboration with producer Danger Mouse brings "fresh, intriguing, and often inspiring" results. The Christian Science Monitor gives the album an A-, saying: "It may be the blues, and it may be strange, but that doesn't mean it can't feel good."
The Black Keys "get bigger and even better" with Attack & Release, says the Boston Globe. Reviewer Adam Conner-Simons writes that the duo's collaboration with producer Danger Mouse on the new record brings "fresh, intriguing, and often inspiring" results. With Attack & Release, the band is "concisely and purposefully diversifying its sound without skimping on meaty, muscular riffs." To read the review, visit boston.com.
The Christian Science Monitor gives the album an A-, with reviewer Matthew Shaer singling out "Remember When (Side A)" as a favorite, while asserting that "everything else is grand, too." He concludes: "It may be the blues, and it may be strange, but that doesn't mean it can't feel good."
The Dallas Morning News' Thor Christensen weighs in, writing: "The Black Keys haven't lost their love for Zeppelin, Sabbath and all things heavy. They've just added new color to their blues."
The Globe and Mail's Brad Wheeler singles out one particular track as a high point of an album he considers to be in the spirit of B.B. King's "The Thrill Is Gone," Percy Sledge's "When Man Loves a Woman," and Eric Clapton's "Layla."
"What startles me most," the reviewer writes, "is Auerbach's singing on 'So He Won't Break.'" Wheeler calls it a "soul-rock stunner that has the singer digging deep," concluding that "Auerbach has always been a cut above the average garage-rock barkers, but here he raises the notch."
To read the review, visit globeandmail.com.
