Loose, celebratory blues rock recorded with a live-in-the-room energy. A sun-drenched collection of boogie-inflected riffs and soulful, analog-warm grooves.
It's the Black Keys doing what they do best: loud guitars, big drums, and enough groove to fill a Nashville dive bar.
A celebratory and unpretentious collection of high-energy blues rock that feels like a well-worn leather jacket.
Dropout Boogie, the eleventh studio album by The Black Keys, serves as a celebration of the duo's twenty-year anniversary. Recorded at Auerbach’s Easy Eye Sound studio in Nashville, the album marks a significant shift toward a more collaborative and improvisational recording process. Unlike previous efforts that relied heavily on internal duo dynamics or high-concept production, this record features contributions from ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons and Reigning Sound’s Greg Cartwright. This infusion of external DNA results in a 'boogie' sound that leans heavily into 1970s blues-rock traditions. Critics noted that the album feels like a 'jukebox of excavated gems,' blending the raw grit of their early Fat Possum days with the refined melodic sensibilities of their arena-rock peak. It is a lean, ten-track collection that prioritizes groove and texture, solidifying their position as the premier torchbearers of modern garage-blues.
Put this on for
windows down on a humid highway with nowhere to becracking the first beer of a backyard barbecuethat specific grit of a pool hall at midnightshaking off a bad week with high-volume riffsgarage door open and tools scattered on the floorboots hitting the pavement in a city that never cleans uplate-night card game where the stakes are low but the music is loud
Moments worth waiting for
the sudden, sharp transition into the anthemic chorus of Wild Child
Billy Gibbons' signature greasy guitar tone cutting through the mix on Good Love
the psychedelic, slow-burn soul groove that anchors It Ain't Over
Sounds like
2022s production with a 2020s soul
Sits beside
Tell Me I'm Pretty - Cage The Elephant, Tres Hombres - ZZ Top, A Man Alive - Thao & The Get Down Stay Down, Lazer Guided Melodies - Spiritualized
Lyrical territory
love_romantic, nostalgia, self_examination
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High Energy
Energy · ↑ +13% more than usual
On this album, high energy sits about 13% more prominent than across the rest of the artist's catalogue.
