Today marks the official release of The Black Keys new album, El Camino, available around the world from Nonesuch Records. You can get the new album on iTunes, Amazon, The Black Keys store, and in the Nonesuch Store, where CDs and LPs are now 34% off and include high-quality, 320 kbps MP3s of the album at checkout. The band celebrated the album's release with an intimate show for hundreds of lucky fans at New York's Webster Hall and countless more via the livestream webcast live on MTV Hive. The celebration continues tonight, when The Black Keys perform on The Colbert Report on Comedy Central, and tomorrow night, with a performance on the Late Show with David Letterman on CBS.

Rolling Stone's David Fricke, reviewing last night's record-release show in New York, says the duo "sealed their ten-year ascent—from a pair of hard-working aces, cutting heavy-attitude fuzz-box blues under basement and abandoned-factory conditions in Akron, Ohio, to the best young classic-rock band in America—with a tight and feisty" set, "displaying everything they've learned and mastered over that decade."

Fricke later declares: "This is Their Moment—that remarkable time when a great band is about to hit life-changing paydirt," calling El Camino "the best record they've ever made."

Read the review at rollingstone.com.

Fricke's colleague at Rolling Stone gives the album four stars, saying: "Over 10 years and seven albums, Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney have turned their basement blues project into one of America's mightiest bands." You'll find that review at rollingstone.com as well.

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The Los Angeles Times gives El Camino a perfect four out of four stars. "It feels a little funny to gush so outwardly about a record, like the critical capacities are failing when enthusiasm takes over," admits Times reviewer Randall Roberts. "But sometimes, a CD scratches an itch you didn't even know you had, and El Camino is that record ... It's a summer record released in the winter, a dance record that just happens to rock, a rock record that fans of LCD Soundsystem will dig. It's a party record, a driving down the highway, 'I'm in love with rock and roll, and I'll be out all night' record."

Randall concludes: "Really, the only question is whether, this late in the year, this constitutes the best rock album of 2011 or 2012. It'll probably be both."

There's much more in the complete four-star review at latimes.com.

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USA Today also gives four stars to the new album, "a confident and compelling rock throwdown that manages to upstage last year's excellent Brothers." Band mates Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney "have evolved into an inventive, cogent force, and their talents coalesce with a fiery brilliance in Camino's 11 tracks," writes USA Today reviewer Edna Gundersen. "The duo simply floors it, taking its blues-funk core on a tire-squealing joyride of crackling hooks, fuzzy guitars, thumping beats and molten grooves ... Producer Danger Mouse tags along to spice up the ride with his usual nimble flourishes, making this road trip even more exhilarating." Read the complete four-star review at usatoday.com.

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"[B]y the time the record ends, there’s a good chance you’ll find yourself immediately wanting to start over again from the beginning," says Paste's Wydham Wyeth. "El Camino is yet another ear-pleasing installment in the catalog of a consistently impressive band. It’s an album that leaves you breathless and wanting more, but it becomes more fun with each new spin." Read the review at pastemagazine.com.

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TIME magazine says El Camino is " filled almost entirely with pounding rock songs led by electric guitar and sung in Auerbach’s soulful growl—a perfect rock blend of scratch and croon. The album is packed so tightly with gems that it’s hard to pick out a favorite track."

TIME reviewer Claire Suddath writes that the band has "managed to reinvigorate a genre" with El Camino, saying it "will sound familiar to anyone schooled in the history of rock ‘n’ roll, but the Black Keys haven’t copied anyone, they’ve just taken well-worn techniques and used them to create an album that fits in nicely along the rock ‘n’ roll timeline—somewhere between 1960s garage rock and the dawn of 1970s punk."

Read the review at time.com.

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American Songwriter gives the album four stars as well. "The Black Keys don’t try to emulate their vintage influences as much as cook them down into something unique, stirring the pot with a little help from producer Danger Mouse and coming up with something that tastes like a meatier, stronger Brothers,” writes reviewer Andrew Leahey, who goes on to describes it as " an unabashed rock & roll album, rooted in elastic tempos built for dancing and big, bombastic guitars pushed to their breaking point ... It’s meat-and-potatoes blues-rock topped with something sweeter, and it’s the most consistent thing these guys have ever cooked up." Read the review at americansongwriter.com.

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The Owl magazine says: "There is no doubt that this is one of the best rock and roll albums of the year, and arguably topping 2010′s already-excellent Brothers; El Camino is one of the best we’ve seen from Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney." Owl reviewer Caity Dekker says: "It’s not only El Camino’s catchy riffs, compositional creativity, and the battery-charged energy surging through it that makes it an instant classic ... [I]t’s still obvious that the band is just as inspired and talented as ever, but now we are constantly reminded that their rise to the top was no accident." Read the review at theowlmag.com.

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To pick up a copy of El Camino, head to the Nonesuch Store now.