The Black Keys - Thickfreakness
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Free Music Notes for Thickfreakness
Free Music Review: Damn right it's thick
Hit: 5 Stars
The Black Keys are two guys from the American mid-west, hard as it to believe that only two people make this thick, rich audio gumbo. They play the blues, post-modern blues with licks of psychedelia and rockabilly, white mid-west blues, punk blues. They write original music, even though you'll swear some of those songs have got to be fifty or sixty years old. Can two white kids from Akron, Ohio play the blues with anything like conviction? Oh, yeah.Patrick Carney plays drums, and he plays them heavy, the kick-drum thuds into your stomach, the cymbals are muted like they're coated with years of cigarette smoke from greasy clubs and roadhouses. This guy ain't a showoff drummer, he's a hold down the groove until you find yourself breathing in time sort of drummer.
Dan Auerbach plays guitar like he's stringing barbed wire, through an old Ampeg amplifier that is one gig short of meltdown. And he sings like he's done time in Mississippi jails, impossible, this guy is in his early twenties, where did he get the chops to stream that kind of pain through his voice? Can he write a blues lyric? "She want to get out the car, in the middle of the road, her screamin' and hollerin', it's getting mighty old," yup, he can.
This album reeks of cigarette smoke and beer and gasoline fumes, the whole tone reminds me of Exile on Main Street, it's gritty and earthy, three a.m. blues when the band is past caring about the audience and just playing their pain away.
So, The Black Keys, with a guitarist who sounds like he's channeling Elmore James and a drummer who sounds like an idling Chevy 327 with bad lifters are now on Fat Possum records, the real deal. Their music is thick enough to chew, it tips its hat to all the right forefathers(...).
Free Music Review: These guys are amazing, simply amazing
Hit: 5 Stars
I would give these guys a ten stars if I could. They are so simple yet so profound. Rock rifts that remind me of a mix between Blues and Classic Rock, yet with a style all there own. And vocals that sound like a mix of B.B. King, the Stones, Clapton, and Hendrix. Just amazing. If you can listen to "Have love will travel" and not get into them, you never will. Each song they will take you through such a raw, emotional, and rewarding journey. Try them out, I would argue they are better than the White Stripes, see for yourself!Free Music Review: Not a re-invention of rock, but maybe a re-discovery
Hit: 5 Stars
To me, what makes this band so incredible is that these two 20ish white boys from Ohio manage to sound like wizened and grizzled old black men from Mississippi or NOLA, who could sit around and tell you about how they used to jam with Muddy Waters. But what makes this music consistently listenable is the unique me-fi record quality, the Cream/Hendrix nostalgia, and the down low lyrics that make you feel cool and sexy while you drive down the highway in your minivan on your way to your Corporate American cubeland breadbasket.Free Music Review: One of the Most Refreshing, Real Albums in awhile
Hit: 5 Stars
It's a struggle to find bands creating music today that doesn't sound like half-a-million other bands. The Black Keys have put together two albums that have their own style, soul and voice. The two musicians are extremely cool as weel. They hang out at the bar before their shows, casually walk up to the stage and then absolutely blow the audience away. They are an amazing group to see live. Enjoy!Free Music Review: the blues are back!
Hit: 5 Stars
Make that 4.5 stars. A really great band and a powerful record. The only reason I give 4.5 instead of ten is because of the muffled sound quality on the record. Definately worth picking up though. Their probably one of the best bands out right now, if not the best. Even if your not into the blues, you'll still love this album.