The black keys are a duo from northeast ohio and are simply a modern day exponent of blues rock bringing old ideas and motifs into modern alternative music.
Black keys rubber factory review.
They both hail from the midwest they both work a similar garage blues ground and both have color coded names.
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There s more of an album feel to rubber factory a conscious song by song progression rather than the visceral overwhelming vibe that forged their debut the big come up into a seething wrecking.
Allmusic review by stephen thomas erlewine it s easy to think of the black keys as the flip side of the white stripes.
Comparisons to the white stripes be damned these boys take blues grit and make it their own.
Dan auerbach guitar and vocals patrick carney drums.
After eating nothing but strange foreign dishes and crazy tastes your friends suggested its refreshing to just get a huge steak.
The black keys earlier work is noted for being recorded and produced entirely in drummer patrick carney s basement.
My personal faves are act nice and gentle a perfect honly tonk jam.
Rubber factory is the black keys third full length album after thickfreakness.
And the black keys serve this slab hot and juicy.
Armed only with carney s drum kit and auerbach s fuzzed out guitar and scratchy howl of a voice the black keys have turned in a baker s dozen of sludgy in a good way funky primordial blues.