bide your time until Brothers

Music lovers everywhere, rejoice! We only have to live a mere four more days without the Black Keys latest, Brothers, it drops on the 18th. The follow up to Attack and Release was recorded in Muscle Shoals Studios, where previously demigods like Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin and the Rolling Stones have stood, breathed and laid down tracks.

After a year riding on a packed boat in the seas of hip-hop with Damon Dash as the captain one can assume and hope the boys learned a lot. If the instruments they used on the record are telling in anyway then they definitely diversified after their time in a collaboration. A late night brain storming in their hotel room produced a Harpsichord. Also used on the record and probably thought up under similar late night fiending, a parlor piano, realistic synth, Hammond organ and a Wurlitzer.

Mixed by Tchad Blake, Brothers also features Nicole Wray, who was a part of Blakroc and formerly a protege of Missy Elliot. Wray contributes her voice to three of the fourteen tracks. Other than that, the album is all Black Keys, only one track wasn't produced by the Ohioans, Danger Mouse, who produced their last alum, Attack and Release, produced Tighten Up. Also, all the songs come from the mind of the Keys, aside from one cover, the Jerry Butler tune, Never Gonna Give up on You.

Although forced patients is never an easy thing, in this case it's all we can do until Tuesday when planets allign and our ears and hearts get what they've been yearning for.