Drummer Patrick Carney said of the band’s recent success, “We’ve taken the long road to get where we are. Click to experience the power of raw blues rock! This album reminds of the days when I looked up from my high school bed and watched the sky turn purple and listened to entire albums from beginning to end like Jethro Tull or Led Zeppelin or Jimi Hendrix or Blood Sweat & Tears or ELO or The Moody Blues or U2 or Deep Purple or Blue Oyster Cult or… well you get the idea. Stack Shot Billy  10. The Black Keys rely on less yet ingeniously achieve more.Grammy Award–winning engineer-auteur Tchad Blake mixed the album and totally got the concept. Produced by Danger Mouse (Gnarls Barkley, The Gorillaz, The Grey Album), Attack & Release was recorded at engineer Paul Hamann’s illustrious Suma Studio outside Cleveland, Ohio. We didn’t do it on purpose, it just happened that way, but then we were off and running.”As with countless musicians who’d ventured to Muscle Shoals before them, The Black Keys were attracted to the legacy—and the atmosphere—of a studio where everyone from Aretha to the Stones had done time.Ultimately, though, their music evolves out of a somewhat mysterious inner space they’re able to access wherever they go. The pair’s concert is as much a show of force as it is a musical performance.”, MUSICIANSThe Black Keys are Dan Auerbach and Patrick CarneyPRODUCTION CREDITSProduced and recorded by The Black Keys at The Audio Eagle Nest, Akron, OHMastered at Magnetic North by Chris KefferAll songs written by The Black Keys, McMoore McLesst Publishing (BMI), administered by Chrysalis MusicArtwork and design by Michael Carney, The Black Keys areDan Auerbach, guitars, vocalsPatrick Carney, drums PRODUCTION, 1. So I really went for it, too, and did all kinds of different shit, I used whatever range I had. I don’t even know if Dan realized we’d done that. We’ve experienced everything from driving a thousand miles to play for no one to winning Grammys.” Auerbach further describes the band’s dynamic, “We don't talk before we play. In May 2010 they released their breakthrough album, Brothers, to widespread critical acclaim. It’s like when we’re working, we work for 12 or 13 hours straight and never go outside. The Black Keys’ fifth full-length LP, Attack & Release, follows their 2006 critically acclaimed Nonesuch debut Magic Potion, which the Chicago Tribune proclaimed, “ a gritty, wild, minimalist masterpiece. Debuting at #2 in the US, it went on to win three Grammy Awards and an MTV Video Music Award, and topped numerous year-end lists, including iTunes, NPR, and. “After recording our previous albums in a basement, we were ready to go somewhere else,” Auerbach confesses. As Auerbach puts it, “I think that whenever you go some place that has a lot of rich history, you always kind of get a good feeling and that was definitely there for us. It’s pretty cool to be in your early 30s making music with your best friend. Debuting at #2 in the US, it went on to win three Grammy Awards and an MTV Video Music Award, and topped numerous year-end lists, including iTunes, NPR, and Rolling Stone. Read Full Biography. 10 A.M. Automatic  3. Internationally, El Camino is Gold in Belgium, Spain, Italy, and Holland; Platinum in Ireland, France and the UK; and double Platinum in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. The closing track, “Things Ain’t Like They Used To Be,” features Auerbach singing along side eighteen-year-old bluegrass/country-singer Jessica Lea Mayfield.The Black Keys have released four albums prior to Attack & Release––2002’s The Big Come Up, 2003’s Thickfreakness, 2004’s Rubber Factory, and 2006’sMagic Potion. But more than just genre- and decade-hopping fun, there’s an emotional candor and narrative quality to the songs that offer a whole new level of soulfulness to the already floorboards-shaking sound of The Black Keys. Entertainment Weekly called Rubber Factory one of the best albums of the year, saying of The Black Keys, “They revive the notion that rock & roll should be murky and mysterious, a stumble into a dark alley late at night,” while The New Yorker said, “Direct, consistent, powerful, and loud, the record is one of the best rock releases of the year.” (The band’s final Fat Possum record, an EP of Junior Kimbrough covers called Chulahoma, was released this spring. Their geographical trek mirrored a musical journey, from contemporary hip-hop jams to the hallowed ground of classic R&B, that has resulted in the most cohesive album—and the deepest, steamiest grooves—of the duo’s eight-year career. Tchad does a lot of mixing where I’m sure he gets, you know, 40 or 50 tracks on one song. All the drums are on one or two tracks, which is sort of unheard of in the modern-day recording world. It was an awesome set. 'LET'S ROCK' CD/LP - LP is Exclusive PINK Vinyl, Screen Printed on Tultex 4.5oz Ring Spun Cotton, Black Electric Chair graphic crewneck sweatshirt, Screen printed on Gildan 8oz 50/50 Fleece Crew, The Black Keys’ new album, Turn Blue, was released May 13, 2014, on Nonesuch Records. I'll Be Your Man4. The LP was pressed on 180-gram vinyl and includes instant-download album MP3s. It’s like when we’re working, we work for 12 or 13 hours straight and never go outside. Of the new album, the band says Turn Blue could refer to: A: SuffocationB: SadnessC: Numbness from extreme coldD: A Cleveland late night TV host from the 1960s named GhoulardiE: All of the above, Moreover, Carney comments, “We are always trying to push ourselves when we make a record—not repeat our previous work but not abandon it either.