No Rain, No Flowers – without the shitty sides of life there is no beauty. In view of an and more extremely weather -shaped earth, the old proverb may be interpreted differently today, but hey, hope dies last. And maybe The Black Keys, the duo Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney, only want to cheer us up in the face of a world shaken by polykrises.
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And indeed: with your new album, the 13th of her almost 25 years of band history, you can at least offer a short flight of reality to album length. After Ohio Players last year, Beck and Noel Gallagher could not change anything as guests that it was their first album that did not enter the top 20 in the USA, nothing will be left to chance this time. The team is recruited from songwriters and fellow musicians who are already with Lana del Rey, The Roots or Dr. Have worked.
Is that still blues skirt or already popblues? No matter if you let yourself fall into the dazzling “Make You Mine” with its soulharmonia or go to the summer vacation to the perfectly radio -compatible title track. A little bit of grit, or at least a memory of the sex appeal of dangerous corners and edges, can still be found on songs like “Man on a mission”, whose guitar is reminiscent of a garage skirt of the zero years like Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – or The Black Keys.
This review first appeared in the MusikExpress 09/2025.