Significant longplayers from yesteryear
18 May 2025
Ohio‘s rowdy blues tandem THE BLACK KEYS – singer/guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney – released their 6th LP BROTHERS today 15 years ago, on
18 May 2010.
It was the band’s big breakthrough, as it sold over 73,000 copies in the United States in its first week and peaked at number three on the Billboard 200. In the UK it went no higher than #29.
Pitchfork: “If there’s one thing that keeps Brothers from jumping the gap between a “very
good” album and a “great” album, it’s the running time. When it’s all said and done, the 15-track set runs almost an hour long, causing one to think that the Keys might have done the best material here a disservice by shoving so much onto one album when they could’ve easily saved some up for their next release.
It makes a skeptical fan like myself wonder if the Keys spent themselves creatively here, and
if the next record will just be more back-to-basics trad-blues mediocrity. If the next Black Keys record builds on Brothers, though, they still have some good music ahead of them.”
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