Black Keys - Magic Potion (Dig)
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Artist: Black KeysBrand: BLACK KEYS
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-09-12
Music Label: Nonesuch
Soundtracks:
- Just Got to Be
- Your Touch
- You're the One
- Just a Little Heat
- Give Your Heart Away
- Strange Desire
- Modern Times
- The Flame
- Goodbye Babylon
- Black Door
- Elevator
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Free Music Review: Minimalist Perfection
Hit: 5 Stars
I don't want to like this band, or this album, as much as I do. It bugs me a little bit that they won't add a bassist so Auerbach can rip some screeching blues solos full of passion and heartache. I can sense that he wants to let loose on this record more than any of their others - but can't because of the restrictions that their 2 person set up inevitably will always bring. All that having been said, this record is nothing short of amazing. I've only had it for a few days and I can't stop listening to it. This is far and away the Black Keys' strongest record to date. The singing on this record captures the blues more than any white rock band I have ever heard - from Zeppelin to Stevie Ray Vaughn and ZZ Top and the rest. Mr. Auerbach was blessed with a voice that came straight from the murkiest waters of the Mississippi Delta. Listening to the Black Keys - especially on this record - is like being transported to a time and place that is long gone. They make the blues exciting and invigorating again. This does not sound like a white blues-rock band. Magic Potion is fuzzed-out heart-wrenching pure blues from start to finish. It is one of the most urgent, honest, emotional records I have heard in some time. The riffs are brutal yet silky smooth, and Dan Carney's drums hit hard throughout. As for the singing, I think Dan Auerbach has the best voice in music today. I'll refrain from an exhaustive discussion of the individual songs. Suffice it to say there is not one remotely weak track on this disc. The songs are so strong you'll scarely notice the stripped down minimalism of the Black Keys' sound. With this release the Black Keys have gone from the best indie novelty act around to a full-blown rock and roll powerhouse. If they added some more members (or just a bassist - come on Dan we want to hear some jamming!) and thickened up their sound without losing that garage rock edge, I really feel this band could be rock and roll superstars, one of the great groups of this generation (these guys are so much better than Wolfmother, who I like also). With Magic Potion they are well on their way.
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Magic Potion, the Black Keys' fourth album, is a spectacularly stripped-down set of sneakily melodic blues-besotted rock concocted in the Akron, Ohio basement studio of drummer Patrick Carney. Guitarist-singer Dan Auerbach is possessed of a compelling, hurt-beyond-his-years voice and an approach to lead guitar that is both wildly expressive and utterly succinct. The self-taught Carney, who anchors these tracks, may force writers to returnAll hail the riff king! The Black Keys' guitarist/singer Dan Auerbach has the meanest way with a hook since Jimmy Page. He adds to his arsenal on the band's fourth full-length release, on which each track pounds its way into your skull with fuzzy, swampy fury. Less is very definitely more in Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney's world as the stripped-down guitar/drums attack smolders, burns, and then ignites without shifting into heavy-metal overdrive. But even with the occasional ballad such as "You're the One" slowing the momentum, this is an intoxicating blast of raw, thudding blues power. The duo impressively control the dynamics, raising and lowering the tension in a yin-yang struggle of ominous, greasy, heavy blues-rock that never sounds forced. With the exception of a few subtle but effective overdubs, this is the sound Auerbach and Carney heard in the drummer's basement studio where the music was recorded. Like the best rock and roll, the disc exudes a dark, cramped claustrophobia and foreboding sense of danger, just like wandering through a haunted house, unaware of what is behind the next corner. It's the main ingredient in the band's deceptively simple yet potent formula that creates this addictive, compelling, and often intense album. --Hal Horowitz
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