Turn Blue by The Black Keys

Turn Blue, the Black Keys' eighth studio album, came out on Nonesuch on May 12, 2014, their fourth go-round with Danger Mouse, who co-produced with the duo and wrote alongside Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney as an equal partner. They cut most of it at Sunset Sound in Hollywood in the summer of 2013, finishing up at the Key Club in Benton Harbor, Michigan, and Auerbach's Easy Eye Sound in Nashville.

After the stomp of El Camino, this is the comedown: slower, moodier and shot through with psychedelic haze and soul, with Auerbach's divorce seeping into the lyrics. "Weight Of Love" stretches out in a long, smoky guitar trip, "Gotta Get Away" is the sunny exception that rock radio grabbed, and "Fever" led the way as the first single. The title tips its hat to the old Ghoulardi catchphrase. It gave them their first number-one album in the US, Canada and Australia.

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