Okay, I’m not writing in front of sold-out crowds, taking home any Grammys, or occupying any space on anyone’s best-of-year lists.īut it’s changed me as a listener. And in the same way that Brothers changed everything for The Black Keys, deciding to write this blog was a bit of a turning point for me, too. Even the typeface used on the album cover feels straight out of a 1975 yearbook.īrothers was released 500 weeks ago, on May 18, 2010, the day after I published the first post on this blog. It was recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Alabama, a legendary but underused studio where no album had been recorded in 30 years, and the songs on Brothers reverberate with an analog growl equal to anything The White Stripes ever put out. As a result, I’m in a bit of a nostalgic mood, and everything about the Brothers album feels like it has one eye on the past. This is, as you’ve noticed, the 500 th song to be featured on this blog. That closes their breakthrough record, and there are two reasons I’m featuring The song you’re listening to now, “These Days,” is the song It was the breakthrough they needed to climb Number two on their “Best of 2010” list (behind Kanye), and it landed on justĪbout everyone else’s best-of-the-year picks as well Spin, Paste, Time. The fame and acclaim of bands like The Strokes and The White Stripes. To be firmly planted in the second tier of this movement, just out of reach of Of the 1970s, in which digital recording techniques were shunned, vintageĮquipment was prized, and beards were all but mandatory.
Of the “rock is back” acts of the early 2000s a return to the look and sound The duo – Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney – were seen as one Touring, signed to a label, putting out music that was well-received…not struggling to pay the bills, but not exactly a huge success either. By 2010, The Black Keys had been together for nearly a decade.
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