“The Only One” is slow, earthy sorrow, too roughly handled for pop radio here but a surefire hit on some distant blues planet. After the furious one-two of Brothers in 2010 and El Camino in 2011, the Black Keys reaching a new commercial peak, and an uncharacteristic stretch of two and a half years before Turn Blue, I. With a bonafide hit under their belt (2010’s Brothers), The Black Keys struck while the money was hot and made an album that was basically the soundtrack to the unlikely story of an Ohio blues. Debuting at 2 in the US, it went on to win three Grammy Awards and an MTV Video Music Award, and topped numerous year-end lists, including iTunes, NPR, and Rolling Stone. But Brothers, recorded largely in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, with little outside help, has a higher ratio of compelling songs and distress. In May 2010 they released their breakthrough album, Brothers, to widespread critical acclaim. If that album now sounds like a salutary lesson in the perils of bowing to self-imposed rules rather than seeking to rewrite them, its follow up, 2008’s Attack & Release, moved The Black Keys. Auerbach and Carney did as much on 2008’s Attack & Release, produced by Danger Mouse. In “Ten Cent Pistol,” the pair pile on the menace - a garage quintet’s worth of guitars, organ and heavy death march - while leaving enough cold air in a mix that feels like a graveyard recital. The Black Keys release Brothers (Deluxe Remastered Anniversary Edition), an expanded version of their watershed 2010 multi-platinum, Grammy-winning sixth studio album Decemin the US and Canada and on Januin all other territories, via Nonesuch Records, on which the record is newly available throughout the world. “Everlasting Light” has hive-of-bees distortion, corn-pone harmonies and an Auerbach falsetto that suggests Prince singing through a mummy’s gauze.
The studio, not to mention the artwork patterned after such disregarded Chess psychedelic-era relics as This Is Howlin’ Wolf’s New Album. On Brothers, their first studio album after a year of offshoot affairs (Auerbach’s solo album, Keep It Hid Carney’s side group, Drummer a hip-hop project, BlakRoc), the Keys make a thick, dirty racket, overdubbed but never overstuffed. Retreating from the hazy Danger Mouse -fueled pot dream of Attack & Release, the Black Keys headed down to the legendary Muscle Shoals, recording their third album on their own and dubbing it Brothers. The Black Keys - singer-guitarist Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney on drums - are a two-man combo with a big-band mind.
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