A brand new tune by the Black Keys, “Beautiful People (Stay High),” is out now. It’s the first to be launched from their upcoming album, Ohio Players.
The observe, which you’ll take heed to beneath, was co-written by Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney of the Keys, plus Beck and Dan the Automator.
In addition to Beck, Greg Kurstin and Noel Gallagher additionally contributed to the album. “We had this epiphany: ‘We can call our friends to help us make music,'” Carney defined in a press launch. “It’s funny because we both write songs with other people – Dan all the time [as a solo artist and producer], me when I’m producing a record. That’s what we do.”
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“No matter who we work with, it never feels like we’re sacrificing who we are,” Auerbach added. “It only feels like it adds some special flavor. We just expanded that palette with people we wanted to work with. We were there to support them and their ideas, to do whatever we could to see that moment flourish. But when it came time to finish the album, it was just Pat and me.”
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Carney has described the new LP as “epic,” and “our best record for sure.” The album got here to be as the band completed work on their 2022 album Dropout Boogie, electing to maintain the momentum transferring. “By the end of the year,” he defined to NME in 2023, “we had 17 new ideas down and we just kept going.”
Ohio Players will probably be launched in full on April 5. An “extensive international tour” is predicted to be introduced at a later time.
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