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Attack & Release

The Black Keys

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Akron, 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 Reviews

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Great album. Same Black Keys blues and soul with some strange digital effects thrown in. Strange but good. Attack & Release has more variety than the last album, with great new songs like psychotic girl, strange times, rembember when (side b) and the best song Oceans & Streams. Will be interesting to see how they pull off some of these songs live.... if they ever come to Alberta

Clever, Mature, Dark & Soulful

When I first heard this album I was not sure what to think. It sounded so different from their simple sound of blues rock guitar, drums and vocals from their previous albums. I can usually judge the quality of album for the number of times I play it on my ipod and this one has got dozens of listens in just a few days. This album is very good it grows on you. It’s the same black keys but with a more of a mature & clever sound. The album is much more listenable, a little dark at times, but still full of soul, funk, blues. A few highlights include Lies, Same Old Thing, Rivers & Oceans, Psychotic Girl, but with each listen I find more and more to like about this album.

Biography

Formed: 2001 in Akron, OH

Genre: 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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