The Black Keys have announced the release of their new album, Peaches, which they have previewed with a new single.
This comes less than six months after the band had released their previous album, No Rain, No Flowers.
The album was created after the Black Keys' guitarist and singer Dan Auerbach's father was diagnosed with esophageal cancer and moved in with Auerbach.
“We weren’t making a record,” Auerbach said. “We were just jamming, like this is for us. Really primal, in a moment when all the nerves were raw, just kinda screaming. We were going through a lot, trying to lift our spirits. I think my dad getting sick made me not give a fuck and just wanna scream for a bit".
He added: "I’d look for 45s specifically to play at the record hangs, but sometimes I’d find a song and think, 'This might be fun for Pat and me to play live".
Previewing this album, the Black Keys have shared their new single, 'You Go To Lose', which you can check out below.
Last August, the Black Keys' guitarist Patrick Carney shared an insight into the music industry, which he described as an "insane racket".
"The game has changed over here in the United States," Carney said. "We just don’t connect the dots".
The drummer added that successful live promotion firms are also financially linked with major names in the music industry, which leads to conflicts of interest, with Carney claiming that its the artists who miss out.
He said: "You see, like, ‘Jay-Z started a management company with Live Nation’, [but] no one really understands what that actually means," he says. "So the people that you’re supposed to be working with to negotiate with your promoter are in the pocket of the promoter. So how the fuck are you supposed to work? It’s everywhere… it’s insidious. It’s f***** up",
The musician said that artists take on all the risks as they are left with the majority of expenses when they go on tour.
"Each time you’re playing a show," he said, "someone’s slapping these service fees on, they’re taking 25 per cent of your merch off the top, it’s a fucking racket, man. You would think over the course of 65, 75 years of rock’n’roll, someone would have stepped in and be like, ‘Fuck all this shit. This is insane,’ and I think most managers would, but they’ve all been compromised".
