He has a real ear for melody and arrangement and that was a big part of this record, as was the studio…a really special place.” Carney concurs: “The place is covered with dust, it smells like a moldy cabin, and it looks like a haunted house.
“Danger Mouse came in as our collaborator. “After recording our previous albums in a basement, we were ready to go somewhere else,” Auerbach confesses. By recording in an actual studio (another first), guitarist-vocalist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney were given the opportunity to add a variety of instruments to their usual simple set-up-including organ, moog, and banjo. As the band began composing tracks for Turner early last year, though, they quickly realized they were actually laying the groundwork for a new album of their own.Īttack & Release thus became The Black Keys’ first collaborative effort, as it morphed into their own album with Danger Mouse as producer. Brian Burton) approached the band to write songs for an album he was developing with the late R&B legend Ike Turner.
Initial collaboration began when Danger Mouse (a. The Black Keys’ fifth full-length LP, Attack & Release, follows their 2006 critically acclaimed Nonesuch debut Magic Potion, which the Chicago Tribune proclaimed, “a gritty, wild, minimalist masterpiece.” Produced by Danger Mouse (Gnarls Barkley, The Gorillaz, The Grey Album), Attack & Release was recorded at engineer Paul Hamann’s illustrious Suma Studio outside Cleveland, Ohio.
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