The Black Keys - Ohio Players

After being a cult band for the first decade of their career, the Black Keys blew up with the success of sixth album Brothers in 2010, consolidated by the earth-devouring El Camino two years later. The latter was itself spearheaded by ‘Lonely Boy’; a track impossible to ignore for a few years.  

Despite being anything but an overnight success, the universal praise the albums received seemed to take Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney by surprise and – arguably – they’ve yet to recover from it. Until now.

After a comparatively muted response to their output of the last decade (albeit as they became an arena band) Delta Kream rejuvenated them in the way that covers albums so often do; relinquished from the pressure of writing songs, the pair seemed to rediscover the joy of simply playing. Dropout Boogie (2022) received two Grammy nominations and Ohio Players finds the duo expanding their palette to accommodate several guest appearances, where they were once a closed shop.

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