Check this band out. I’m not yet acquainted with the duo The Black Keys but I have fallen in love with the progressive acid-trippy blues-garagerock that lead singer Dan Auerbach’s other band Radio Moscow put out on their eponymous debut from 2007.
CORRECTION: Auerbach is the producer of the album and co-wrote the songs Introduction and Timebomb. He is NOT a member of the band. I’ve no idea where I got that from! Sorry about that.
I am yet to check out their new, second album, which dropped this April. The two first tracks alone on the album Radio Moscow are more than enough reason to check out the new album as well as The Black Keys’ slightly longer discography. Frustrating Sound may just have a title that is an overall description of the frantic blues-rocking going on throughout the stunningly retro-reviving rock sounding album, but in that particular song the guitar solos and the wandering bassline speak for themselves.
But the only introduction anyone will need to get hooked on this stuff is the first song off the album, for a dope rock album like this unusually aptly titled: Introduction. It’s a one minute orgy of wah-wah-wah guitar and a groovy back comp to satisfy all my blues-rock needs even if the rest of the album is a master’s degree in how to rock out the bluesed out way. Fantastic!
Radio Moscow is jammin! Dan produced them, but he’s not in the band.