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Thickfreakness
Rock · 2003 · 11 tracks

Thickfreakness

The Black Keys

Recorded in a single fourteen hour basement session on an 8-track tape machine. Thick, distorted blues riffs and heavy drumming that sounds like the Rust Belt.

April 8, 2003 · Fat Possum Records

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A raw, sweat-soaked collision of Rust Belt grit and deep-south blues tradition.

Tracklist · 11 Tracks
01
Thickfreakness
3:48
02
Hard Row
3:15
03
Set You Free
2:46
04
Midnight in Her Eyes
4:03
05
Have Love Will Travel
3:05
06
Hurt Like Mine
3:28
07
Everywhere I Go
5:41
08
No Trust
3:38
09
If You See Me
2:52
10
Hold Me in Your Arms
3:20
11
I Cry Alone
2:49
Moments Worth Listening For
The opening riff of the title track where the fuzz is so thick it feels like it's clogging the speakers.
The way the drums hit like a physical weight on the Junior Kimbrough cover Everywhere I Go.
The sudden, sharp rhythmic shift and vocal urgency during the bridge of Set You Free.
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Where This Album DepartsEach spoke is a trait. The orange shape shows where this album pulls away from — or holds to — the rest of the artist’s catalogue. Tap for more.

How does Thickfreakness sound next to the rest of The Black Keys's catalogue?

Basement Show+2.4σ

Basement Show saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

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