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The Black Keys Announce New Album Peaches!, Drop Song
The Black Keys are keeping up their loose pattern of releasing an album every year; their newest, the enthusiastically titled Peaches!, arrives May 1 via Easy Eye Sound/Warner. Leading the blues-rock band’s return is the single “You Got to Lose” and its music video directed by E.J. McLeavey-Fisher, in which the duo plays a surprise show at Memphis juke joint Hernando’s Hide-A-Way. Check it out below.
Spanning 10 songs, Peaches! is billed as the Black Keys at their “most natural” since their 2002 debut, The Big Come Up. The follow-up to 2025’s No Rain, No Flowers is the duo’s 14th album together overall. The band started working on the record after singer-guitarist Dan Auerbach’s father was diagnosed with esophageal cancer and stayed in his son’s Nashville home while rapidly declining.
“We weren’t making a record. We were just jamming, like this is for us,” Auerbach said in a press release. “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.”
Read Stephen Thomas Erlewine’s review of No Rain, No Flowers.
Peaches!:
01 Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire
02 Stop Arguing Over Me
03 Who’s Been Foolin’ You
04 It’s a Dream
05 Tomorrow Night
06 You Got to Lose
07 Tell Me You Love Me
08 She Does It Right
09 Fireman Ring the Bell
10 Nobody But You Baby
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