The Black Keys - Brothers
Critic Score
Based on 33 reviews
2010 Ratings: #97 / 924
Year End Rank: #10
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Based on 832 ratings
2010 Rank: #139
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CRITIC REVIEWS

90
Slant Magazine
The album is as ferocious and soulful an exploration of contemporary blues as anything in recent memory.
90
AllMusic

The tough blues band of the Black Keys earliest records is back, but the group hasn’t forgotten what they’ve learned in their inwardly psychedelic mid-period.

77
Pitchfork

After working with Danger Mouse on their last full-length, Black Keys sound re-energized and playful on their loosest record in years.

70
Drowned in Sound

It finds The Black Keys taking on elements of what they’ve learnt on their journey here, but sticking resolutely to a recipe of guitar, drums and raspy, wisened vocals.

wanderingstar
70

About what I was expecting. It's pretty good, innit?

TheCarioca
82

Everlasting Light - 4/5
Next Girl - 5/5 ❤
Tighten Up - 5/5 ❤
Howlin' for You - 3/5
She's Long Gone - 5/5 ❤
Black Mud - 5/5 ❤
The Only One - 4/5
Too Afraid to Love You - 3/5
Ten Cent Pistol - 5/5 ❤
Sinister Kid - 3/5
The Go Getter - 4/5
I'm Not the One - 4/5
Unknown Brother - 3/5
Never Gonna Give You Up - 5/5 ❤
These Days - 4/5

LaCroixBoix
70

I've had an up and down relationship with The Black Keys. On one side they're a super fun blues rock group that puts out kickass singles and sometimes a really solid record. Brothers isn't my favorite of theirs, but it is still a pretty landmark album for the decade to come.

This duo had been having a career almost a whole decade before Brothers even dropped, but this is really the one that blasted them off into indie stardom. I seriously had no clue who they were before it. After hearing ... read more

cleitonjzz
NR

one of the best albums of 10's era.

DrLappiHrtSrg
75

This album makes wanna drink alone in a bar with my shirt's sleeves floded while fantasizing about the neck tattooed girl serving at the bar

Tobingus
79

This was my first experience with the black keys, and while I know not everyone listens to music via physical media anymore, I have to mention the packaging. the entire case, front and back, and the included poster all have "these are the guys" and "these are the lyrics" and "this is a poster", and so on. the disc has a solid black film on it and so you think that the cd is a solid black disc, but if you listen to the whole album in one sitting (as I do with music ... read more

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