The Black Keys: El Camino

Robert Lee of Methane Studios poster for Black Key's show at Atlanta's Music Midtown Festival.

























Ever since the Black Keys' visceral second album, 2003's garage-blues romp Thickfreakness hoiked its riffs over the parapet, guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney have been dogged by unfavourable comparisons with the White Stripes, a similarly underpopulated, bass-less and raucous two piece with a colour in their name.