The Black Keys – Dropout Boogie

 

The Black Keys – Dropout Boogie
Easy Eye / Nonesuch – 2022
Rock, Garage, Blues
Rated: ****

We haven’t mentioned a lot of the albums released by The Black Keys, but Brothers made it to the Number 19 of the second edition of the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown, back in 2010. And henceforth we mentioned El Camino the year after. After that we failed to mention three releases before the new record Dropout Boogie immediately boogied into our hearts. Last year’s Delta Kream was that full on country blues, that Mississippi Hill, those swampy sweaty roots, and this year’s Dropout Boogie takes all that, makes it go boom and makes you want to dance. It seems to reference all those old origins as much as it refers to their older records. Especially those two albums we mentioned; and it all sounds so righteous, suave, and cool. Less gritty perhaps and whole heaps of oxygen to making everything sound spacious and wide. And then they have Billy F. Gibbons join them on a guitar once owned by Mississippi Fred McDowell, which he immediately plugged in and started playing along with that Good Love track, feeling it, feeling it up, making it Dropout Boogie legendary.

(Written by JK)

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