The Black Keys: First Track from Attack and Release Surfaces with ‘Strange Times’
admin on Feb 23rd 2008
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Black Keys – ‘Strange Times’
Those eagerly awaiting the forthcoming album by the Black Keys – produced by none other than Danger Mouse – have been given a taste with lead-off single, ‘Strange Times’. Attack and Release will be the duo’s fifth album (their first in a studio) and comes not long after their collaborative project with Ike Turner was aborted after his passing in December.
While the Gnarls Barkley man has been looking after production duties, going on the above evidence it doesn’t seem to have altered the pair’s signature sound of grimey, blues-orientated rock as drastically as one might have expected.
With the album dropping on Nonesuch this April, the hype surrounding this project look certain to finally take the Black Keys out of the shadow of that other guitar-and-drums combo, The White Stripes – a likelihood only underlined by the fact that Rod Stewart (only the latest name in a long list of their celebrity admirers) has now spoken of his desire to work with the Akron riff merchants. Bizarrely, the Black Keys have quickly stated their openness to the idea.
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