THE BLACK KEYS ANNOUNCE THEIR 11TH STUDIO ALBUM ‘DROPOUT BOOGIE’ – OUT MAY 13TH

THE BLACK KEYS ANNOUNCE 11th STUDIO ALBUM,
DROPOUT BOOGIE, OUT May perhaps 13 ON NONESUCH

Initial One “WILD CHILD” + Video OUT Now

Dropout Boogie Attributes Collaborations with Billy F. Gibbons, and Greg Cartwright

Just after 10 albums, the final 5 of which have absent top 10 or better, 6 Grammy awards, and bought-out excursions about the planet, The Black Keys are back: The duo, called “America’s Most Trusted Band” by Stephen Colbert, and “one of the finest rock’n’roll bands on the planet” by Uncut, releases its eleventh studio album, Dropout Boogie, on May well 13 by means of Nonesuch Data. The 1st one, “Wild Youngster,” is out these days together with a online video directed by the band’s longtime collaborator Bryan Schlam. Dropout Boogie capabilities collaborations with Billy F. Gibbons (ZZ Leading), Greg Cartwright (Reigning Audio), and Angelo Petraglia (Kings of Leon).

Dropout Boogie will be released a person working day in advance of the twentieth anniversary of The Black Keys’ very first album, The Big Arrive Up. As they have carried out their full profession, the duo of Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney wrote all of the materials in the studio, and the new album captures a amount of very first can take that hark back to the stripped-down blues rock of their early days generating music alongside one another in Akron, Ohio basements.

“That’s usually been the attractiveness of the detail Pat and I do. It’s instant,” Auerbach suggests. “We’ve never seriously experienced to perform at it. Any time we’d get collectively, we’d just make songs, you know? We did not know what we were heading to do, but we’d just do it and it would seem amazing. It’s the normal chemistry Pat and I have. Becoming in a band this very long is a testament to that. It was a authentic reward that we ended up provided. I necessarily mean, the odds of currently being plopped down a block-and-a-50 percent from each other in Akron, Ohio–it just appears crazy.”

Just after hashing out initial thoughts as a duo at Auerbach’s Nashville-centered Effortless Eye Seem studio, Auerbach and Carney welcomed new collaborators Billy F. Gibbons, Greg Cartwright, and Angelo Petraglia to the Dropout Boogie sessions. Whilst The Black Keys formerly co-wrote tunes with regular producer/collaborator Danger Mouse, this is the very first time they have invited various new contributors to work concurrently on one particular of their own albums. Each Cartwright and Petraglia can be read on the new album’s very first solitary, “Wild Boy or girl.”

“Living in Nashville and making documents below has opened both of those of our minds to that working experience a little bit far more,” stated Auerbach. “I understood Pat would really like functioning with each of these fellas, so we resolved we’d give it a shot. It was the 1st time we’d at any time really carried out that. It was enjoyment as hell. We just sat all-around a table with acoustic guitars and worked out a song ahead of time.” “The great issue with Greg is that he wants to method stuff with a story in mind — there’s a plot, just about,” added Carney.

The Black Keys had previously jammed with ZZ Prime guitar legend Billy F. Gibbons far more than a decade back in Los Angeles, though ZZ Top was doing work on an album with producer Rick Rubin. “We hardly ever even definitely wrote a single song–we just had some strategies we set down,” Carney said. “We actually just preferred to hang out with him. We stayed in touch, and Dan invited him to the studio when we started off functioning on this album.”

Between the duo’s albums, Auerbach, via his Simple Eye Audio studio and label, has developed and co-published with artists which includes Yola, Marcus King, Robert Finley, Ceramic Animal, and the Velveteers.

Carney has also been occupied as a producer at his Nashville-by-way-of-Akron studio Audio Eagle, where by he has labored with Michelle Branch, Tennis, Jessy Wilson, Calvin Johnson, and The Sheepdogs, amongst other people.

The Black Keys will tour North The usa for the initial time in 3 decades starting in July. Band of Horses will assistance on all dates, although Ceramic Animal (July 9-30), Early James (Aug. 24-Sept. 9), and the Velveteers (Oct. 2-18) will open at select performances. A entire checklist of dates and ticket information and facts is underneath. Worldwide tour dates will be announced in the coming months.

The Black Keys Dropout Boogie album is now out there for pre-purchase in this article. The first solitary “Wild Child” is out now for streaming and obtain. A restricted version Dropout Boogie ‘Pink Panther’ vinyl is now available for pre-buy solely in the band’s on the internet retailer. Choose indie retailers will also be getting a limited quantity of Dropout Boogie ‘White’ vinyl out there for pre-get.