More on this, later. But to end any sense of suspense: The Black Keys made far and away the best album of the past year, Attack and Release.
Put simply: they are, for my money, the best band–by a rather wide margin–in the game right now, and have been for several years.
They are dangerously close to doing no wrong.
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