The Black Keys/Modest Mouse/Repeat Repeat

The press materials accompanying Let’s Rock, the latest album from the Black Keys, find singer-guitarist Dan Auerbach talking about how the disc marks a return to the band’s early days when it made stripped down, grunge-y garage blues records out of drummer Patrick Carney’s basement. Songs such as the swaggering “Eagle Birds,” a tune that features a gritty mid-song guitar solo, and the rousing “Get Yourself Together” come off as vintage Black Keys. “When we’re together we are the Black Keys, that’s where that real magic is and always has been since we were 16,” he says.