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The Black Keys: Peaches!

Pitchfork·Grayson Haver Currin·26 days ago
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It is perplexing, then, how staid and complacent Peaches! sounds, how the biggest eruption of the whole thing is right there in the title’s exclamation mark. The groove that frames opener “Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire”—a crate-digger acoustic oddity that got such a boost from a 2019 reissue that Paul Weller covered it last year —is so hypnotic that Auerbach sings like he’s half-asleep. In 1975, Dr. Feelgood’s “ She Does It Right ” was all amphetamine jitters; it was a door propped open that young punks would soon tear down. It sounds both sexless and devoid of danger here, as though a pub rock band that’s taken a solemn vow of sobriety needed setlist filler. Recorded more than 80 years ago, Big Boy Crudup’s elemental “ Who’s Been Foolin’ You ” should be a blank slate for the Black Keys, its perfect hook an invitation to go wild. But, again, they sound like they’re on autopilot, Auerbach’s voice smeared into near-inscrutability and his solos aiming for the splenetic until they crash into a safety net.…

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