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May 29, 2014On Turn Blue you can tell the duo remain integral and solidly at the core, new influences or not.
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MojoMay 15, 2014With its Magic Fly synthetic hustle, single Fever pulses with the same reductive pop genius, but doubtless deterred by the laws of diminishing returns the Keys have eschewed ab blanket reiteration--with mixed results. [Jun 2014, p.91]
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May 14, 2014It's not White Blood Cells or Icky Thump, but at least they no longer sound like they're producing records in a Black Keys factory.
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May 12, 2014There’s a lot to like about Turn Blue, but it’s a cruel irony that the heaviest hand in Dan Auerbach’s warts-and-all confessional sometimes seems to belong to his producer.
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May 12, 2014Turn Blue is less immediate than its predecessor, more sprawling and--according to the band--designed to be savoured in headphones.
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May 12, 2014Much like that fancy sports car, Turn Blue is big, bombastic and very well made. Just, at points, a teensy bit ostentatious.
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May 13, 2014Throughout Turn Blue, it's difficult to tell how invested these guys actually are in the music they're making, an indifferent attitude that encourages the listener to act in tandem.
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MagnetJun 18, 2014Turn Blue is a soft pack of post-coital smokes, and Marlboro Lights 100's at that. [No. 110, p.51]
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Jun 26, 2014This record is guaranteed to indiscriminately piss off both kinds of Black Keys fans: the diehard purists yearning for the blues rock halcyon days and the recent devotees primed for another round of hooky singles.
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May 13, 2014Feelings are always “heavy” or a “burden,” and love is consistently “dark” or “light”; it’s thematic territory that feels stale for the band, and the result is an album that aspires to talk about the complex nature of relationships, yet has nothing meaningful to say.
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May 13, 2014The best tunes are the first and last in “Weight of Love” (where Auerbach unleashes a two-minute guitar solo of vintage psychedelia) and the Stones-like punch of “Gotta Get Away.” Otherwise, most songs merely drift away.
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Positive: 160 out of 204
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Mixed: 34 out of 204
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Negative: 10 out of 204
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