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 or  iTunes Price: $9.99 Genre: Alternative Released: Apr 01, 2008 Customer Ratings (803 Ratings)
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View More By The Black Keys Our ReviewAkron, Ohio’s Black Keys hooked up with Gnarls Barkley producer Danger Mouse for their fifth studio album and first to be recorded in a real recording studio. The added fidelity, along with the addition of special guests, Tom Waits’ sidemen Marc Ribot and Ralph Carney, make for surprisingly standard nightclub blues (“Oceans and Streams,” and a duet with country-bluegrass singer Jessica Lea Mayfield for “Things Ain’t Like They Used to Be”). Organs and background vocals trill in full-blown, full-band orthodox glee. (The Black Keys initially were composing an album for R&B legend Ike Turner who unexpectedly passed before the collaboration could commence.) Elsewhere, the band’s defiant, independent spirit can be heard in the crackle and hum of the blues-based, but overall punk-inspired energy of “I Got Mine,” “Strange Times,” and “Remember When (Side B).” The two-man band use the extra fidelity to spread out a desolate, lonesome mood for “Lies” and “Remember When (Side A)” and a psychedelic crunch for “Same Old Thing” where a bird-calling flute adds a late-‘60s vibe.. Customer ReviewsI know it's not Coldplay, but hear me out (4 stars)You know, i once heard Chris Martin interviewed about the album x and y, and he was asked to speak on the new sound the band had taken on for that album, and he simply replied, "we're not going to be held back." Illustrating that purest of ideas towards which ALL musicians these days should strive, and that is improvement. Learning. Expansion. Experimenting. It's what's normal to do, really, anyone reading this who plays an instrum Maturation a la Dangermouse (5 stars) Many Black Keys purists will whine and complain that this album is too overproduced. They will say that they use of other instruments takes away from the Keys' original style, and that it is too far a step away from their old techniques of recording raw blues in their basement. But they are all wrong. This album is a masterpiece from the duo from Akron, as their musical talents alongside Dangermouse's production abilities makes for a perfect SELLOUTS!! (5 stars) Being that I have been really fond of this band since thickfreakness, I feel obligated to eat some crow. When Danger Mouse was mentioned for production, I ranted about the mistake these cats were making...several times. No disrespect to DM, I simply thought he was outside of his domain. This album ruined that argument. I have not quit listening to this MASTERPIECE for the past two days. Absolutely amazing...front to back. Every song cut BiographyFormed: 2001 in Akron, OHGenre: Alternative Years Active: '00s, '10s It’s too facile to call the Black Keys counterparts of the White Stripes: they share several surface similarities — their names are color-coded, they hail from the Midwest, they’re guitar-and-drum blues-rock duos — but the Black Keys are their own distinct thing, a tougher, rougher rock band with a purist streak that never surfaces in the Stripes. But that’s not to say that the Black Keys are blues traditionalists: even on their 2002 debut, The Big Come Up, they covered the Beatles’ psychedelic...
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