THE BLACK KEYS - EL CAMINO
At a lean 38-ish minutes, the 7th studio album from The Black Keys ( duo Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney) is a Motown-tinged blues rock masterpiece, that has just enough touches from producer DJ Dangermouse to add elements of everything from glam rock keyboards to female backing singers, without making the whole thing collapse under it`s own weight.
Auberbach and Carney are solid musicians who have peddled their classicist blues rock for for nearly 10 years, and they trust in each others ability and the guiding hand of Dangermouse to drive this record forward. Also "El Camino" sounds like this is a pairing having fun with their sound. Take the glam-stomp of "Gold On The Ceiling" the rattling blues funk of " Money Maker", or "Little Black Submarines" which is a lost acoustic-led number by Led Zep. All are exhuberent in their different sounds.
This is The Black Keys pushing for the mainstream without betraying their sound. It`s just that their sound has been turned up to 11 on the pop-amp, filtered by Dangermouse.
DOWNLOAD - GOLD ON THE CEILING, SISTER, LONELY BOY, NOVA BABY.
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