The Black Keys: Peaches!

The Black Keys: Peaches!

After a quarter-century as a band, the blues-rock duo offers its second set of covers in just five years. It is weirdly free of feeling.

The Black Keys - Peaches! (Album Review) - Stereoboard UK

For the past 25 years, The Black Keys have largely been on a similar trajectory — upwards, initially steeply, then more gradually. But lately things have been rockier, with cancelled tours and recent dabblings in electronica slowing their roll. It comes as a refreshing surprise, then, to find them returning to a sound that evokes memories of their earliest years together on ‘Peaches!’, their 14th studio album.