The Black Keys- Never Gonna Give You Up
If you follow me on Twitter, you may have seen me raving about the new album from The Black Keys, Brothers, on Thursday last week.
The Black Keys - Brothers (2010)
It was another one of those moments for me where I heard something, and loved it so much I had to play it on repeat all day to get it out of my system. I still haven’t had enough, so I’m still playing it a week later. This time though, it was one of those rarer moments where it was a whole album and not just a lone song.
It has a soulful, swaggering, attitudal (I’m not sure that’s a word), retro, blues-rock vibe to it. That may not make sense until you hear it.
Fairly White Stripes-like but less aggressive, this is my favourite track from the album:
The Black Keys – Never Gonna Give You Up
One of the more soulful songs, I thought it would be fairly funny if I made a Rick Astley reference on the last.fm page for the song. Turns out I wasn’t the only or the first one to make the connection…I posted it anyway. :)
The album was released in May on Universal and is, I think, their 5th full-length album. They’re playing at the Roundhouse on 23 June but it’s SOLD OUT.
