Review: Dan Auerbach, Keep It Hid
Check out Eric’s review of the debut solo effort of Black Keys’ frontman Dan Auerbach:
The singing, guitar-playing half of the Black Keys drops his first solo album, and very little of it measures up to the music of his regular band. The Keys’ lean guitar-drums attack always imposed certain limitations, but Auerbach has not used his solo freedom to add refinement or polish; rather, he sinks deep into the slop: sloppy performances, sloppy production, sloppy sound.
He recorded the meandering, 14-track affair in his home studio, playing most of the instruments himself, and otherwise calling on friends and family.His songwriting does stretch beyond the hardscrabble garage-blues of the Black Keys, but his efforts at acoustic ballads, country-rock, Western twang, noise-funk and other stuff don’t come fully together. Click here to read more.
