(Free#ZIP) Let's Rock The Black Keys Album Download

When we’re together we are the Black Keys, that’s where that real magic is, and always has been since we were 16,” Auerbach said in statement. “The record is like a homage to electric guitar,” Carney added. “We took a simple approach and trimmed all the fat like we used to.”
The Black Keys have announced their ninth studio album “Let’s Rock” (yes, with the quotation marks). It’s out June 28 via Easy Eye Sound/Nonesuch Records. Today, Patrick Carney and Dan Auerbach have shared the LP’s second single “Eagle Birds.” Check it out below, and scroll down for the album art and tracklist.

Tracks:

1. Shine A Little Light
2. Eagle Birds
3. Lo/Hi
4. Walk Across The Water
5. Tell Me Lies
6. Every Little Thing
7. Get Yourself Together
8.Sit Around And Miss You
9. Go
10. Breaking Down
11. Under The Gun
12. Fire Walk With Me

The album was produced by the Black Keys and is their first album since 2014's Turn Blue. It was preceded by the singles "Lo/Hi", "Eagle Birds", and "Go".[2] "Lo/Hi" made history by topping Billboard's Mainstream Rock, Adult Alternative Songs, Rock Airplay, and Alternative Songs charts simultaneously, making it the first time any song has reached number one on all four formats at once.

“Let’s Rock” includes the previously shared “Lo/Hi.” The album was written, produced, and recorded live by Auerbach and Carney at Auerbach’s Easy Eye Sound studio in Nashville. It also features backing vocals from Leisa Hans and Ashley Wilcoxson.

The Black Keys’ previous LP was 2014’s Turn Blue. In September, the duo will kick off the “Let’s Rock” tour with Modest Mouse and Shannon and the Clams. Find tickets here. (Pitchfork may earn a commission from purchases made through affiliate links on our site.)

Patrick Carney called the album "an homage to electric guitar", and said that the band took a "simple approach" to its recording. It was recorded live by the band at Dan Auerbach's Nashville studio, Easy Eye Sound.[2] Besides contributions from two backing vocalists (Leisa Hans and Ashley Wilcoxson), Auerbach and Carney did not collaborate with anyone else in its composition and the pair co-produced the album.[4] It also does not feature any keyboards.[5]

According to Auerbach, the inspiration for the album's title was a news story regarding the execution of convicted murderer Edmund Zagorski while the band was recording the album. When asked for any last words before his November 1, 2018 execution, Zagorski reportedly told the guard, "Let's Rock" before his being the first electric-chair execution in Tennessee in 11 years.

Sharon O'Connell of Uncut said the album is "as much mellow rolling as it is firing on all Midwestern, '70s-rock cylinders". She singled out the singles "Eagle Birds" and "Lo-Hi" as highlights, while calling "Walk Across the Water" and "Shine a Little Light" underwhelming.[9] Victoria Segal of Mojo said "while these songs have the pop of 2011's excellent El Camino, some of that crackle is missing". She said despite the songs being tightly constructed, the record "still feels as if the emotional wiring has been botched". Segal added, "There's a lyrical lethargy that doesn't help but more acutely, even after five years absence, there's an over-familiarity.

On the morning of September 5th, Patrick Carney and Dan Auerbach walked into Auerbach’s Nashville studio, picked up their instruments and became the Black Keys again. By season’s end, they had finished their ninth album, the self-produced “Let’s Rock” (yes, that’s really the title). As usual, they created the entire album’s worth of songs from scratch in the studio, with nothing written in advance and very little discussion. It had been five years since they recorded together, but that didn’t seem to matter at all. “We fell right back into it, really, day one,” says Carney. “We wrote two songs the first day. We’re just fucking around, and that’s what comes out.”

It’s this magic that happens with Pat and I,” says Auerbach, who started a new band, recorded a solo album and produced at least a dozen other projects during the Keys’ lengthy break. “It was the same thing that happened when we were 16 and started playing, and magically, it just sounds like music. It was really awesome, having the break and then coming back and just playing with Pat again. It felt great.”

As for that title: Well, this album does, in fact, rock. Due for a June 28th release on Easy Eye Sound/Nonesuch, the new LP packs considerably more visceral punch than their last one (2014’s atmospheric, Danger Mouse-helmed Turn Blue) — from the AC/DC chords of album opener “Shine a Little Light” to the Blue Öyster Cult-meets-ZZ Top punch of “Eagle Birds” to the riff-y power pop of “Get Yourself Together” to the “Spirit in the Sky” fuzz of the first single, “Lo/Hi.” There are zero keyboards on the album, and Auerbach played most of the guitar solos live; he’d simply stop playing rhythm and kick into lead.