by Fred A 2010
Blues-rock
The Black Keys are serious people. They do not vomit in the headlines, do not start rumors about their intimate life, do not include the latest pop tune fashionable to show subversive (1), do not invent a crazy life and do not run According to the alliance came to expand their audience. These guys are down to earth and as much charisma as your neighbor. Yet, over the album (in 8-year career), they have established themselves as one of the strongest rock bands and energetic of their generation through a recipe that is unstoppable to keep only the basics: drums, guitar and saturated with excess sweat.
With 6 albums filled to the rough-hewn blues-rock, discography may look like a monolith unfathomable. However, the duo of Ohio has a long way since its beginnings. In 2004, with Rubber Factory (their third and best album to date) the Black Keys reinventing the blues as if he was born in a shabby old garage rather than in rural southern United States, a garage where we would have found the guitar Jeff Beck, Stooges the tuner and the top hat-shaped Muddy Waters. Subsequently, the Black Keys continued their journey in simplicity, distilling an impressive regularity with two attractive but less essential album (Magic Potion in 2006 and Attack & Release in 2008).
The 2010 batch had to be more ambitious or risk seeing the group to remain ever under-estimated. Brothers, their new album, meets all expectations. While remaining true to his philosophy (Keep it simple), the duo continues the shift begun during his previous two albums with the expansion of its guitar-drums and other instruments. The album differs from its predecessors by a groovy rhythm more than ever ( Everlasting Light ; She's Long Gone ) and a guitar sound still saturated but the intonation a bit more electronic (The Go Getter ; Howling For You ). For the rest, the Black Keys always talking blues and rock with heavy blows pentatonic riffs and bass drum. The minimalist packaging might suggest a rush job. It hurt to know the seriousness of the group. The overall from tube radio ( Tighten Up ) to ballads ( Never Gonna Give You Up ) is very consistent and seems even more homogenous than previous built around two or three tubes. Only spots: the album is a bit long and lack of solos.
Brothers new standard thus set itself up in the discography of Black Keys and could even be the antithesis of Rubber Factory. On one side the raw sound of the duo recorded in an abandoned factory, the other an album of studio work with a tone more groovy and laid. How do effective rock being the group most discreet of the planet? Thesis, antithesis, synthesis. You have two years.
1. I admit they have yet made their asset recovery of Beatles on their first album ( She Said She Said ) and the resumption of live Stooges ( No Fun).
The sequence of good taste:
Several effective options available to you to enchainer after Brothers. To plunge into the garage influences of the group, you can go on Fun House of Stooges. If you prefer to stay in the groove the only album by Beck, Bogert & Appice including the rock version of Superstition .
The song of the album: Everlasting Light
The ideal place to enjoy the album:
Forget the post-industrial ambience Rubber Factory. Brothers is an album of urban and nocturnal preference. It is perfect for strolling on the sidewalks this winter after 17h. Besides the studio album, the band enjoyed live. You can find excellent show as a podcast here and there.
BB King and Iggy Pop or lovers! Yes, I know, my grip is somewhat violent and has surely given the high heart to some but after all that's rock, right? Returning to the subject (d) frolics: the black Keys are worthy successors to the couple fantasy. They combine the groove of the legendary blues and the raw sound and powerful presence on Raw Power group Iguana Detroit.
She's Long Gone is a typical example of this mix of influences. The guitar riff is terribly blues but the guitar sound and arrangements are heavily rock. It's like listening the MC5 produced by Motown . Once in the lead, the melody will not leave you for the day.
For those who know the ancient opus Black Keys, the sauce remains almost exactly the same: love songs sung with a husky voice on the blues tunes played with fat guitars to perfection. While acknowledging the quality, the latest album disappointed me. I expected better from them. With Brothers, the band shifts into high gear: there are more instruments, more sweat, more rust, more varied influences. For brevity, this new album is "more". The Black Keys have finally added some spice to their dishes.
To follow up, I suggest you throw an ear (or two if you're daring) to small discography Band of Skulls. This English band, even though his influences are more rock than blues, had to learn to adjust their amps in the same studio as the Black Keys.
Blues-rock
The Black Keys are serious people. They do not vomit in the headlines, do not start rumors about their intimate life, do not include the latest pop tune fashionable to show subversive (1), do not invent a crazy life and do not run According to the alliance came to expand their audience. These guys are down to earth and as much charisma as your neighbor. Yet, over the album (in 8-year career), they have established themselves as one of the strongest rock bands and energetic of their generation through a recipe that is unstoppable to keep only the basics: drums, guitar and saturated with excess sweat.
With 6 albums filled to the rough-hewn blues-rock, discography may look like a monolith unfathomable. However, the duo of Ohio has a long way since its beginnings. In 2004, with Rubber Factory (their third and best album to date) the Black Keys reinventing the blues as if he was born in a shabby old garage rather than in rural southern United States, a garage where we would have found the guitar Jeff Beck, Stooges the tuner and the top hat-shaped Muddy Waters. Subsequently, the Black Keys continued their journey in simplicity, distilling an impressive regularity with two attractive but less essential album (Magic Potion in 2006 and Attack & Release in 2008).
The 2010 batch had to be more ambitious or risk seeing the group to remain ever under-estimated. Brothers, their new album, meets all expectations. While remaining true to his philosophy (Keep it simple), the duo continues the shift begun during his previous two albums with the expansion of its guitar-drums and other instruments. The album differs from its predecessors by a groovy rhythm more than ever ( Everlasting Light ; She's Long Gone ) and a guitar sound still saturated but the intonation a bit more electronic (The Go Getter ; Howling For You ). For the rest, the Black Keys always talking blues and rock with heavy blows pentatonic riffs and bass drum. The minimalist packaging might suggest a rush job. It hurt to know the seriousness of the group. The overall from tube radio ( Tighten Up ) to ballads ( Never Gonna Give You Up ) is very consistent and seems even more homogenous than previous built around two or three tubes. Only spots: the album is a bit long and lack of solos.
Brothers new standard thus set itself up in the discography of Black Keys and could even be the antithesis of Rubber Factory. On one side the raw sound of the duo recorded in an abandoned factory, the other an album of studio work with a tone more groovy and laid. How do effective rock being the group most discreet of the planet? Thesis, antithesis, synthesis. You have two years.
1. I admit they have yet made their asset recovery of Beatles on their first album ( She Said She Said ) and the resumption of live Stooges ( No Fun).
The sequence of good taste:
Several effective options available to you to enchainer after Brothers. To plunge into the garage influences of the group, you can go on Fun House of Stooges. If you prefer to stay in the groove the only album by Beck, Bogert & Appice including the rock version of Superstition .
The song of the album: Everlasting Light
The ideal place to enjoy the album:
Forget the post-industrial ambience Rubber Factory. Brothers is an album of urban and nocturnal preference. It is perfect for strolling on the sidewalks this winter after 17h. Besides the studio album, the band enjoyed live. You can find excellent show as a podcast here and there.
Notice Baptiste
Imagine BB King and Iggy Pop or lovers! Yes, I know, my grip is somewhat violent and has surely given the high heart to some but after all that's rock, right? Returning to the subject (d) frolics: the black Keys are worthy successors to the couple fantasy. They combine the groove of the legendary blues and the raw sound and powerful presence on Raw Power group Iguana Detroit.
She's Long Gone is a typical example of this mix of influences. The guitar riff is terribly blues but the guitar sound and arrangements are heavily rock. It's like listening the MC5 produced by Motown . Once in the lead, the melody will not leave you for the day.
For those who know the ancient opus Black Keys, the sauce remains almost exactly the same: love songs sung with a husky voice on the blues tunes played with fat guitars to perfection. While acknowledging the quality, the latest album disappointed me. I expected better from them. With Brothers, the band shifts into high gear: there are more instruments, more sweat, more rust, more varied influences. For brevity, this new album is "more". The Black Keys have finally added some spice to their dishes.
To follow up, I suggest you throw an ear (or two if you're daring) to small discography Band of Skulls. This English band, even though his influences are more rock than blues, had to learn to adjust their amps in the same studio as the Black Keys.
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