How anyone can think the new Black Keys album is anything other than watered down mom-rock is beyond me. Its vanilla mediocrity is worse than any pile of shit they could have put out. They found a polite, clean sound, and they’re selling it to all the “born in the wrong decade” kids who think Led Zeppelin were the greatest songwriters of all time. This is not punk rock. This is stagnating. Like toilet water. The Black Keys peaked with Attack & Release and should have called it quits then.

Mr. Auerbach and Mr. Carney have been hailed as the sole survivors of the garage/blues-rock explosion of the early ’00s, but I’m not so sure that’s something to be proud of. I’m sure you’ll be able to find all their future releases shuffled somewhere between your mother’s Sheryl Crow’s Greatest Hits CDs. Move along people, there’s nothing to see here.

We…really…try..to be…nice….

Pretty much everyone. Sure, a lot of music outlets reviewed it well, but the overall response was “meh.” I think everyone was just expecting another masterpiece like Funeral, and were dissapointed when it wasn’t.

Is it just me, or did it seem like he dissed The Drums towards the end?