The Black Keys - 2019 - Let's Rock (HDtracks) [[email protected]]
Artist: The Black Keys
Title: Let's Rock (HDtracks)
Format: 12 × File, FLAC, Album, Remastered, 24bit 48kHz (HDtracks)
Producer: The Black Keys
Release Date: June 28, 2019
Recorded: September 2018 to January 2019 at Easy Eye Sound, Nashville, Tennessee
Label: Easy Eye Sound/Nonesuch Records
Genre: Rock, Blues Rock, Garage Rock, Indie Rock
Duration: 38:34
Includes digital booklet
The Black Keys:
Wikipedia:
The Black Keys is an American rock band formed in Akron, Ohio, in 2001. The group consists of Dan Auerbach (guitar, vocals) and Patrick Carney (drums). The duo began as an independent act, recording music in basements and self-producing their records, before they eventually emerged as one of the most popular garage rock artists during a second wave of the genre's revival in the 2010s. The band's raw blues rock sound draws heavily from Auerbach's blues influences, including Junior Kimbrough, Howlin' Wolf, and Robert Johnson.
Friends since childhood, Auerbach and Carney founded the group after dropping out of college. After signing with indie label Alive, they released their debut album, The Big Come Up (2002), which earned them a new deal with Fat Possum Records. Over the next decade, the Black Keys built an underground fanbase through extensive touring of small clubs, frequent album releases and music festival appearances, and substantial licensing of their songs. Their third album, Rubber Factory (2004), received critical acclaim and boosted the band's profile, eventually leading to a record deal with major label Nonesuch Records in 2006. After self-producing and recording their first four records in makeshift studios, the duo completed Attack & Release (2008) in a professional studio and hired producer Danger Mouse, who subsequently became a frequent collaborator with the band.
The group's commercial breakthrough came in 2010 with Brothers, which along with its popular single "Tighten Up", won three Grammy Awards. Their 2011 follow-up El Camino received strong reviews and peaked at number two on the Billboard 200 chart, leading to the first arena concert tour of the band's career, the El Camino Tour. The album and its hit single "Lonely Boy" won three Grammy Awards. In 2014, they released their eighth album, Turn Blue, their first number-one record in the US, Canada, and Australia. After completing the Turn Blue Tour in 2015, the duo took a hiatus for several years to work on side projects and produce other artists. They returned in 2019 with their ninth album, Let's Rock.
Let's Rock:
Wikipedia:
Let's Rock (stylized with quotation marks) is the ninth studio album by American rock duo the Black Keys, released on June 28, 2019, through Easy Eye Sound/Nonesuch Records. The album was produced by the band and is their first album since 2014's Turn Blue. It was preceded by the singles "Lo/Hi", "Eagle Birds", and "Go". "Lo/Hi" topped Billboard's Mainstream Rock, Adult Alternative Songs, Rock Airplay, and Alternative Songs charts in the US simultaneously, making it the first song ever to do so.
Patrick Carney called the album "an homage to electric guitar", and said that the band took a "simple approach" to its recording. It was recorded live by the band at Dan Auerbach's Nashville studio, Easy Eye Sound from September 2018 to January 2019. Besides contributions from two backing vocalists (Leisa Hans and Ashley Wilcoxson), Auerbach and Carney did not collaborate with anyone else in its composition and the pair co-produced the album. It also does not feature any keyboards.
According to Auerbach, the inspiration for the album's title was a news story regarding the execution of convicted murderer Edmund Zagorski that he read while the band was recording the album. When asked for any last words before his November 1, 2018 execution, Zagorski reportedly told the guard, "Let's rock", before being executed via the electric chair, Tennessee's first such execution in 11 years.
AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine:
Like many couples embarking on their second decade together, the Black Keys decided they needed to spend some time apart. Once Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney wrapped their supporting tour for 2014's Turn Blue, the pair went their separate ways. During the next half-decade, neither musician laid low, busying themselves with production work and, in Auerbach's case, releasing two albums of new original material (Yours, Dreamily was the 2015 debut of his second band the Arcs, while 2017's Waiting on a Song was his second solo record). All of that extramarital wandering pays great dividends on Let's Rock, the duo's first album in five years. Lighter and leaner than Turn Blue -- and, ironically, considerably more colorful, too -- Let's Rock doesn't so much find the Black Keys trying new recipes as revisiting old favorites with fresh, elevated ingredients. Blues, garage, and old soul remain at the foundation of the group's sound, but they've swapped jammy excesses for over-saturated fuzz guitars and stacked vocal overdubs. Only two songs on Let's Rock threaten to break the four-minute mark: with its lava lamp psychedelic swirl, "Walk Across the Water" drifts for a luxurious length, while the brightly skipping "Get Yourself Together" gets there quicker. This concentrated brevity makes the album play a bit like a fantasy jukebox, spinning out hooks and harmonies with abandon. Sometimes, the Black Keys accentuate this pop undercurrent -- "Tell Me Lies" feels as if it's flirting with Fleetwood Mac's "Little Lies," "Sit Around and Miss You" glides down a gilded highway -- which helps give the album a dreamy weightlessness even if it's doused in layers of electric guitars. Scratch the production gloss a bit, and it's apparent those six strings are balanced by clever drum loops and other digital flair that give the album a modern vibrancy, even if its sensibility is unabashedly retro. Perhaps all these glowing, percolating sounds don't rock as hard and heavy as the earliest Black Keys album, but Let's Rock has an appealing ease to its execution. It's a good-time record designed for daylight and, after the murky Turn Blue and its ensuing hiatus, it's refreshing to hear the Black Keys step out of the dark and into the sunshine.
Tracklist:
01. Shine A Little Light - 3:16
02. Eagle Birds - 2:40
03. Lo/Hi - 2:57
04. Walk Across The Water - 3:55
05. Tell Me Lies - 3:39
06. Every Little Thing - 3:20
07. Get Yourself Together - 3:56
08. Sit Around And Miss You - 2:40
09. Go - 2:26
10. Breaking Down - 3:25
11. Under The Gun - 3:15
12. Fire Walk With Me - 2:58
Personnel:
Dan Auerbach - guitar, vocals
Patrick Carney - drums
Additional Personnel:
Leisa Hans - backing vocals
Ashley Wilcoxson - backing vocals
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