The Black Keys - ‘Fever'

I still don’t know how to feel about this one.

As soon as it hit the internet I opened it up and lost myself in that blue and red spiral for 3 or 4 listens. I didn’t love it immediately, but I have found that with new tracks from The Black Keys, I rarely do. They tend to grow on me in secret until one day I’m forced to admit that I love them just as much as everybody else.

I gave it a week. I’m still not sold on that synth, and the chorus seems to lack the usual bombast that makes these blues rockers so much fun. But at the same time, I could groove to that bass all day and not get tired of it. The band has certainly taken a new direction, as they always do, and props to them for continuing to push their boundaries as musicians on their 8th studio album. Based on past experience, it’ll almost definitely be awesome.

Turn Blue is out May 13 - there’s still time for me to jump back on the unstoppable Black Keys bandwagon.