The Black Keys
Magic Potion
America Canada 'Magic Potion' the Black Keys' fourth album is a spectacularly strippeddown set of sneakily melodic bluesbesotted rock concocted in the Akron Ohio basement studio of drummer Patrick Carney Guitaristsinger Dan Auerback is possessed of a compelling hurtbeyondhisyears voice and an approach to lead guitar that is both wildly expressive and utterly succinct The selftaught Carney who anchors these tracks may force writers to return 'heavy' to the rockcritic lexicon as a seriously praiseworthy term The Black Keys maintain a punk terseness to their adamantly doityourself sound they're as singleminded in their idiosyncratic evocation of the electric Mississippi blues as artists like the late Junior Kimbrough and RL Burnside as the Ramones were about early sixties rock and roll however there is nothing highconcept or ironically distanced about their style it's all sweat sincerity and as much swagger as Carney's basement allows
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