{"id":46356,"date":"2022-06-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/dropout-boogie\/"},"modified":"2022-06-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T00:00:00","slug":"dropout-boogie","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/dropout-boogie\/","title":{"rendered":"Dropout Boogie"},"content":{"rendered":"

The band\u2019s 11th<\/sup> album, Dropout Boogie <\/i>finds the Black Keys continuing their late-season surge of making short, punchy blues albums that hearken back to their roots.<\/p>\n

Following in short order 2019\u2019s Let\u2019s Rock <\/i>and the 2021 covers disc Delta Kream<\/i>, this new disc is another 10 quick blasts of blues-rock, meant to be played at a local bar or festival, with a good beer and some BBQ nearby. It\u2019s only 34 minutes and features a guest appearance from ZZ Top legend Billy Gibbons, who came by the studio to hang out and wound up getting roped into playing on \u201cGood Love.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nobody has a guitar tone quite like Dan Auerbach, so if this album doesn\u2019t break any new ground, it\u2019s still clearly a Black Keys disc, and fans of the older period of the band (pre-Brothers<\/i>) will find plenty to love here. The album feels both timeless and effortless; songs like \u201cFor the Love of Money\u201d sound like they were written in the South seven decades ago, while \u201cBaby I\u2019m Coming Home\u201d shamelessly rewrites the Allman Brothers\u2019 \u201cMidnight Rider.\u201d<\/p>\n

That sense of immediacy is bracing but also ephemeral; you\u2019re not likely to remember these standard blues-rockers, nor will they become an integral part of the Keys\u2019 story. It\u2019s possible some of the tracks could get play on TV shows and commercials (opening cut and leadoff single \u201cWild Child,\u201d the sports drawl of \u201cYour Team is Looking Good\u201d), but most of the others fade like a good night at the bar.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the Love of Money\u201d is probably the standout track, as is Gibbons\u2019 solo on \u201cGood Love\u201d and the closing jam \u201cDidn\u2019t I Love You,\u201d which locks into its groove (Pat Carney, always a standout) and a fiery solo; one imagines it could turn into a mean track onstage, but here it just sort of peters out after four too-short minutes. There\u2019s little mention of the band\u2019s brief psychedelic era in 2014 (pre-hiatus), with only \u201cHow Long\u201d bringing back memories of Turn Blue<\/i>.<\/p>\n

So Dropout Boogie <\/i>ends up being another Black Keys album, not in line with their best work, but definitely in the spirit of their earlier albums. If you prefer your Keys unfussy and happy to make the music they love, or if you like blues-rock with distorted guitars, this is the one for you. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":34512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[8817],"rating":[5615],"class_list":["post-46356","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-the-black-keys","rating-rating-b"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46356"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=46356"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=46356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}