Peaches!
The Black Keys
Peaches! is the fourteenth studio album by Akron, Ohio rock duo The Black Keys — Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney — released on May 1, 2026, via Easy Eye Sound and Warner Records. The record is a covers album, and its origin story is inseparable from its sound: when Auerbach's father fell critically ill in early 2025, Carney assembled a group of musicians and got the band into the studio not to make a record, but simply to play. Corralling guitarist Kenny Brown, bassist Eric Deaton, and Jimbo Mathus of Squirrel Nut Zippers fame into Auerbach's Easy Eye Sound studio in Nashville, the group recorded the ten tracks largely live in the room with minimal overdubs — every track cut in one or two takes, the guitars bleeding loud into the room mics. A horn section arranged by Tommy Brenneck and featuring Cochemea Gastelum, Jared Tankel, Ian Hendrickson-Smith, and Dave Guy adds color to select tracks. As Auerbach describes it, the album is the band's "most natural record" since their 2002 debut The Big Come Up, and like their 2021 covers album Delta Kream, it draws from the deep well of blues 45s that the two have been obsessively collecting and spinning at DJ sets for years.
The ten songs are drawn from a deliberately obscure and wide-ranging set of sources — Junior Kimbrough, R.L. Burnside, Arthur Crudup, Willie Griffin, George Thorogood, and Dr. Feelgood among them — and the band treats them less like source material to faithfully reproduce than as raw material for spontaneous reinvention. Louder Sound praises the album as "revitalised, urgent and gloriously unrefined," noting that Dr. Feelgood's "She Does It Right" is slowed to the point of developing "an entirely new, salacious personality," while George Thorogood's "You Got to Lose" is "slashed and torn in a midnight rumble." The Fire Note calls it "the band's strongest blast of garage blues in years," drawing comparisons to the spirit of early White Stripes, R.L. Burnside, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, while Blues Rock Review awarded it 9/10. Critical reception was mixed overall — Pitchfork scored it a 6.0 and Paste was sharply dismissive — but for fans who have followed the band since their basement recordings, Peaches! represents exactly the kind of unvarnished, pressure-free return to form that had been missing from their more commercial-leaning recent output.
Peaches! is the fourteenth studio album by Akron, Ohio rock duo The Black Keys — Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney — released on May 1, 2026, via Easy Eye Sound and Warner Records. The record is a covers album, and its origin story is inseparable from its sound: when Auerbach's father fell critically ill in early 2025, Carney assembled a group of musicians and got the band into the studio not to make a record, but simply to play. Corralling guitarist Kenny Brown, bassist Eric Deaton, and Jimbo Mathus of Squirrel Nut Zippers fame into Auerbach's Easy Eye Sound studio in Nashville, the group recorded the ten tracks largely live in the room with minimal overdubs — every track cut in one or two takes, the guitars bleeding loud into the room mics. A horn section arranged by Tommy Brenneck and featuring Cochemea Gastelum, Jared Tankel, Ian Hendrickson-Smith, and Dave Guy adds color to select tracks. As Auerbach describes it, the album is the band's "most natural record" since their 2002 debut The Big Come Up, and like their 2021 covers album Delta Kream, it draws from the deep well of blues 45s that the two have been obsessively collecting and spinning at DJ sets for years.
The ten songs are drawn from a deliberately obscure and wide-ranging set of sources — Junior Kimbrough, R.L. Burnside, Arthur Crudup, Willie Griffin, George Thorogood, and Dr. Feelgood among them — and the band treats them less like source material to faithfully reproduce than as raw material for spontaneous reinvention. Louder Sound praises the album as "revitalised, urgent and gloriously unrefined," noting that Dr. Feelgood's "She Does It Right" is slowed to the point of developing "an entirely new, salacious personality," while George Thorogood's "You Got to Lose" is "slashed and torn in a midnight rumble." The Fire Note calls it "the band's strongest blast of garage blues in years," drawing comparisons to the spirit of early White Stripes, R.L. Burnside, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, while Blues Rock Review awarded it 9/10. Critical reception was mixed overall — Pitchfork scored it a 6.0 and Paste was sharply dismissive — but for fans who have followed the band since their basement recordings, Peaches! represents exactly the kind of unvarnished, pressure-free return to form that had been missing from their more commercial-leaning recent output.
Peaches! is the fourteenth studio album by Akron, Ohio rock duo The Black Keys — Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney — released on May 1, 2026, via Easy Eye Sound and Warner Records. The record is a covers album, and its origin story is inseparable from its sound: when Auerbach's father fell critically ill in early 2025, Carney assembled a group of musicians and got the band into the studio not to make a record, but simply to play. Corralling guitarist Kenny Brown, bassist Eric Deaton, and Jimbo Mathus of Squirrel Nut Zippers fame into Auerbach's Easy Eye Sound studio in Nashville, the group recorded the ten tracks largely live in the room with minimal overdubs — every track cut in one or two takes, the guitars bleeding loud into the room mics. A horn section arranged by Tommy Brenneck and featuring Cochemea Gastelum, Jared Tankel, Ian Hendrickson-Smith, and Dave Guy adds color to select tracks. As Auerbach describes it, the album is the band's "most natural record" since their 2002 debut The Big Come Up, and like their 2021 covers album Delta Kream, it draws from the deep well of blues 45s that the two have been obsessively collecting and spinning at DJ sets for years.
The ten songs are drawn from a deliberately obscure and wide-ranging set of sources — Junior Kimbrough, R.L. Burnside, Arthur Crudup, Willie Griffin, George Thorogood, and Dr. Feelgood among them — and the band treats them less like source material to faithfully reproduce than as raw material for spontaneous reinvention. Louder Sound praises the album as "revitalised, urgent and gloriously unrefined," noting that Dr. Feelgood's "She Does It Right" is slowed to the point of developing "an entirely new, salacious personality," while George Thorogood's "You Got to Lose" is "slashed and torn in a midnight rumble." The Fire Note calls it "the band's strongest blast of garage blues in years," drawing comparisons to the spirit of early White Stripes, R.L. Burnside, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, while Blues Rock Review awarded it 9/10. Critical reception was mixed overall — Pitchfork scored it a 6.0 and Paste was sharply dismissive — but for fans who have followed the band since their basement recordings, Peaches! represents exactly the kind of unvarnished, pressure-free return to form that had been missing from their more commercial-leaning recent output.
Peaches! is the fourteenth studio album by Akron, Ohio rock duo The Black Keys — Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney — released on May 1, 2026, via Easy Eye Sound and Warner Records. The record is a covers album, and its origin story is inseparable from its sound: when Auerbach's father fell critically ill in early 2025, Carney assembled a group of musicians and got the band into the studio not to make a record, but simply to play. Corralling guitarist Kenny Brown, bassist Eric Deaton, and Jimbo Mathus of Squirrel Nut Zippers fame into Auerbach's Easy Eye Sound studio in Nashville, the group recorded the ten tracks largely live in the room with minimal overdubs — every track cut in one or two takes, the guitars bleeding loud into the room mics. A horn section arranged by Tommy Brenneck and featuring Cochemea Gastelum, Jared Tankel, Ian Hendrickson-Smith, and Dave Guy adds color to select tracks. As Auerbach describes it, the album is the band's "most natural record" since their 2002 debut The Big Come Up, and like their 2021 covers album Delta Kream, it draws from the deep well of blues 45s that the two have been obsessively collecting and spinning at DJ sets for years.
The ten songs are drawn from a deliberately obscure and wide-ranging set of sources — Junior Kimbrough, R.L. Burnside, Arthur Crudup, Willie Griffin, George Thorogood, and Dr. Feelgood among them — and the band treats them less like source material to faithfully reproduce than as raw material for spontaneous reinvention. Louder Sound praises the album as "revitalised, urgent and gloriously unrefined," noting that Dr. Feelgood's "She Does It Right" is slowed to the point of developing "an entirely new, salacious personality," while George Thorogood's "You Got to Lose" is "slashed and torn in a midnight rumble." The Fire Note calls it "the band's strongest blast of garage blues in years," drawing comparisons to the spirit of early White Stripes, R.L. Burnside, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, while Blues Rock Review awarded it 9/10. Critical reception was mixed overall — Pitchfork scored it a 6.0 and Paste was sharply dismissive — but for fans who have followed the band since their basement recordings, Peaches! represents exactly the kind of unvarnished, pressure-free return to form that had been missing from their more commercial-leaning recent output.
Peaches!
The Black Keys
Peaches! is the fourteenth studio album by Akron, Ohio rock duo The Black Keys — Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney — released on May 1, 2026, via Easy Eye Sound and Warner Records. The record is a covers album, and its origin story is inseparable from its sound: when Auerbach's father fell critically ill in early 2025, Carney assembled a group of musicians and got the band into the studio not to make a record, but simply to play. Corralling guitarist Kenny Brown, bassist Eric Deaton, and Jimbo Mathus of Squirrel Nut Zippers fame into Auerbach's Easy Eye Sound studio in Nashville, the group recorded the ten tracks largely live in the room with minimal overdubs — every track cut in one or two takes, the guitars bleeding loud into the room mics. A horn section arranged by Tommy Brenneck and featuring Cochemea Gastelum, Jared Tankel, Ian Hendrickson-Smith, and Dave Guy adds color to select tracks. As Auerbach describes it, the album is the band's "most natural record" since their 2002 debut The Big Come Up, and like their 2021 covers album Delta Kream, it draws from the deep well of blues 45s that the two have been obsessively collecting and spinning at DJ sets for years.
The ten songs are drawn from a deliberately obscure and wide-ranging set of sources — Junior Kimbrough, R.L. Burnside, Arthur Crudup, Willie Griffin, George Thorogood, and Dr. Feelgood among them — and the band treats them less like source material to faithfully reproduce than as raw material for spontaneous reinvention. Louder Sound praises the album as "revitalised, urgent and gloriously unrefined," noting that Dr. Feelgood's "She Does It Right" is slowed to the point of developing "an entirely new, salacious personality," while George Thorogood's "You Got to Lose" is "slashed and torn in a midnight rumble." The Fire Note calls it "the band's strongest blast of garage blues in years," drawing comparisons to the spirit of early White Stripes, R.L. Burnside, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, while Blues Rock Review awarded it 9/10. Critical reception was mixed overall — Pitchfork scored it a 6.0 and Paste was sharply dismissive — but for fans who have followed the band since their basement recordings, Peaches! represents exactly the kind of unvarnished, pressure-free return to form that had been missing from their more commercial-leaning recent output.
Peaches! is the fourteenth studio album by Akron, Ohio rock duo The Black Keys — Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney — released on May 1, 2026, via Easy Eye Sound and Warner Records. The record is a covers album, and its origin story is inseparable from its sound: when Auerbach's father fell critically ill in early 2025, Carney assembled a group of musicians and got the band into the studio not to make a record, but simply to play. Corralling guitarist Kenny Brown, bassist Eric Deaton, and Jimbo Mathus of Squirrel Nut Zippers fame into Auerbach's Easy Eye Sound studio in Nashville, the group recorded the ten tracks largely live in the room with minimal overdubs — every track cut in one or two takes, the guitars bleeding loud into the room mics. A horn section arranged by Tommy Brenneck and featuring Cochemea Gastelum, Jared Tankel, Ian Hendrickson-Smith, and Dave Guy adds color to select tracks. As Auerbach describes it, the album is the band's "most natural record" since their 2002 debut The Big Come Up, and like their 2021 covers album Delta Kream, it draws from the deep well of blues 45s that the two have been obsessively collecting and spinning at DJ sets for years.
The ten songs are drawn from a deliberately obscure and wide-ranging set of sources — Junior Kimbrough, R.L. Burnside, Arthur Crudup, Willie Griffin, George Thorogood, and Dr. Feelgood among them — and the band treats them less like source material to faithfully reproduce than as raw material for spontaneous reinvention. Louder Sound praises the album as "revitalised, urgent and gloriously unrefined," noting that Dr. Feelgood's "She Does It Right" is slowed to the point of developing "an entirely new, salacious personality," while George Thorogood's "You Got to Lose" is "slashed and torn in a midnight rumble." The Fire Note calls it "the band's strongest blast of garage blues in years," drawing comparisons to the spirit of early White Stripes, R.L. Burnside, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, while Blues Rock Review awarded it 9/10. Critical reception was mixed overall — Pitchfork scored it a 6.0 and Paste was sharply dismissive — but for fans who have followed the band since their basement recordings, Peaches! represents exactly the kind of unvarnished, pressure-free return to form that had been missing from their more commercial-leaning recent output.
Peaches! is the fourteenth studio album by Akron, Ohio rock duo The Black Keys — Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney — released on May 1, 2026, via Easy Eye Sound and Warner Records. The record is a covers album, and its origin story is inseparable from its sound: when Auerbach's father fell critically ill in early 2025, Carney assembled a group of musicians and got the band into the studio not to make a record, but simply to play. Corralling guitarist Kenny Brown, bassist Eric Deaton, and Jimbo Mathus of Squirrel Nut Zippers fame into Auerbach's Easy Eye Sound studio in Nashville, the group recorded the ten tracks largely live in the room with minimal overdubs — every track cut in one or two takes, the guitars bleeding loud into the room mics. A horn section arranged by Tommy Brenneck and featuring Cochemea Gastelum, Jared Tankel, Ian Hendrickson-Smith, and Dave Guy adds color to select tracks. As Auerbach describes it, the album is the band's "most natural record" since their 2002 debut The Big Come Up, and like their 2021 covers album Delta Kream, it draws from the deep well of blues 45s that the two have been obsessively collecting and spinning at DJ sets for years.
The ten songs are drawn from a deliberately obscure and wide-ranging set of sources — Junior Kimbrough, R.L. Burnside, Arthur Crudup, Willie Griffin, George Thorogood, and Dr. Feelgood among them — and the band treats them less like source material to faithfully reproduce than as raw material for spontaneous reinvention. Louder Sound praises the album as "revitalised, urgent and gloriously unrefined," noting that Dr. Feelgood's "She Does It Right" is slowed to the point of developing "an entirely new, salacious personality," while George Thorogood's "You Got to Lose" is "slashed and torn in a midnight rumble." The Fire Note calls it "the band's strongest blast of garage blues in years," drawing comparisons to the spirit of early White Stripes, R.L. Burnside, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, while Blues Rock Review awarded it 9/10. Critical reception was mixed overall — Pitchfork scored it a 6.0 and Paste was sharply dismissive — but for fans who have followed the band since their basement recordings, Peaches! represents exactly the kind of unvarnished, pressure-free return to form that had been missing from their more commercial-leaning recent output.
Peaches! is the fourteenth studio album by Akron, Ohio rock duo The Black Keys — Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney — released on May 1, 2026, via Easy Eye Sound and Warner Records. The record is a covers album, and its origin story is inseparable from its sound: when Auerbach's father fell critically ill in early 2025, Carney assembled a group of musicians and got the band into the studio not to make a record, but simply to play. Corralling guitarist Kenny Brown, bassist Eric Deaton, and Jimbo Mathus of Squirrel Nut Zippers fame into Auerbach's Easy Eye Sound studio in Nashville, the group recorded the ten tracks largely live in the room with minimal overdubs — every track cut in one or two takes, the guitars bleeding loud into the room mics. A horn section arranged by Tommy Brenneck and featuring Cochemea Gastelum, Jared Tankel, Ian Hendrickson-Smith, and Dave Guy adds color to select tracks. As Auerbach describes it, the album is the band's "most natural record" since their 2002 debut The Big Come Up, and like their 2021 covers album Delta Kream, it draws from the deep well of blues 45s that the two have been obsessively collecting and spinning at DJ sets for years.
The ten songs are drawn from a deliberately obscure and wide-ranging set of sources — Junior Kimbrough, R.L. Burnside, Arthur Crudup, Willie Griffin, George Thorogood, and Dr. Feelgood among them — and the band treats them less like source material to faithfully reproduce than as raw material for spontaneous reinvention. Louder Sound praises the album as "revitalised, urgent and gloriously unrefined," noting that Dr. Feelgood's "She Does It Right" is slowed to the point of developing "an entirely new, salacious personality," while George Thorogood's "You Got to Lose" is "slashed and torn in a midnight rumble." The Fire Note calls it "the band's strongest blast of garage blues in years," drawing comparisons to the spirit of early White Stripes, R.L. Burnside, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, while Blues Rock Review awarded it 9/10. Critical reception was mixed overall — Pitchfork scored it a 6.0 and Paste was sharply dismissive — but for fans who have followed the band since their basement recordings, Peaches! represents exactly the kind of unvarnished, pressure-free return to form that had been missing from their more commercial-leaning recent output.