Black Keys new album due this December
The Black Keys will release their new album, El Camino, on the 6th December. The American rock duo, from Akron, Ohio, started work on their seventh studio album around March this year, with recording taking place in Dan Auerbach's (guitars/vocal) new studio in Nashville, Tennessee.
In a 14th July interview with Spin magazine, the band announced that they'd finished work on the album, which was co-produced by the Black Keys and Danger Mouse. The first single from the album, Lonely Boy, was released on the 26th October, with the band posting the video to the track on Youtube. A limited edition 12" vinyl version Lonely Boy, with another new track Run Right Back, will be released on the 25th November as part of the Record Store Day's Black Friday series.
The Black Keys were last in Australia in 2009 and were due to perform at the 2011 Big Day Out, but cancelled, citing exhaustion from extensive touring as the reason. Given they'd played well over 80 shows during 2010, a break was probably well deserved.
The band are performing a string of dates across Europe in January and February next year, but there has been no word of a return to our shores at this stage.
In a 14th July interview with Spin magazine, the band announced that they'd finished work on the album, which was co-produced by the Black Keys and Danger Mouse. The first single from the album, Lonely Boy, was released on the 26th October, with the band posting the video to the track on Youtube. A limited edition 12" vinyl version Lonely Boy, with another new track Run Right Back, will be released on the 25th November as part of the Record Store Day's Black Friday series.
The Black Keys were last in Australia in 2009 and were due to perform at the 2011 Big Day Out, but cancelled, citing exhaustion from extensive touring as the reason. Given they'd played well over 80 shows during 2010, a break was probably well deserved.
The band are performing a string of dates across Europe in January and February next year, but there has been no word of a return to our shores at this stage.