thickfreakness
- The Black Keys
- Band Name: The Black Keys
- Record Label: Fat Possum
- Release Date: Apr 8, 2003
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100The best record to come out this year.
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The songs on Thickfreakness are all near masterpieces.
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80A rich, compelling album. [Jun 2003, p.93]
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If you're looking for irony, you're out of luck; if you want to hear a rock band confront the blues with soul, muscle, and respect, then thickfreakness is right up your alley.
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80A lesson in untouched simplicity, raw groove and my-woman-done-left-me throat wobbling. [Jun 2003, p.94]
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80Sounds like something carved out of the earth, a soulful howl of Hendrixian guitars and Zeppelin stomp.
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77Thickfreakness isn't quite their debut, but it's still a powerhouse, even exceeding its ancestor in total spectacle. Raw rock grandeur as so frequently conjured up on this album is hard to come by in any capacity; if that means having to overlook a few minor flaws, it's worth it.
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What you hear on Thickfreakness is no less faithful than what old black guys on porches on the Delta have churned out for the last hundred years. [June 2003, p.105]
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70When they fall into slow, sullen standards like minimalist closer "I Cry Alone," it's magnificently evil. [#59, p.86]
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Woozy and sometimes warm.
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A steamy, boozy, looser take on the amped-up miserablism of the band's overly rigid 2002 debut The Big Come Up.
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58The production is muddy, the sentiments vague. [June 2003, p.105]
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Thickfreakness is an unrelentingly dour record - perhaps this music was best left in the past.
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