It’s only been a year since the Black Keys released DELTA KREAM (for the second time), an album on which they covered all sorts of swampy treasures of Mississippi Hill Country Blues with great pleasure in the ancestral interpretation. It was a wonderfully authentic form of sound archeology, which now stands in a certain contrast to their own new songs on DROPOUT BOOGIE.
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Although the blues(rock) is ultimately the center of everything that happens here, there are still these fine ramifications that set Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney apart from pure blues teaching. For example, they let a song that is almost opulent by Black Key standards, such as the opener “Wild Child” between polyphonic backing vocals and strings in the refrain, shine in sheer funkyness, or dive into songs like “It Ain’t Over ‘ and ‘How Long’ with a pleading meltdown in Auerbach’s voice into the depths of soul.
Together with a splendid new momentum of archetypically forward-stomping blues rock rumbles and swayers, this results in a record that is absolutely suitable for the stage and makes it impressively clear that these two retro specialists continue to set standards in terms of musical immediacy.
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