Black Keys, The - The Big Come Up

The Black Keys’ debut crackles forth from your speakers and shakes its ass round the room like it’s alive, as insistently persuasive as that ole devil-man himself, with its eerie reverberated hollering, speaker-shredding distortion and those dang-she-done-me-wrong sentiments. There’s an appealingly grimy primitiveness to The Big Come Up, nicely offset with a discreet smattering of electronica, and capped off with an almost Jimi-esque string-bending fluidity on the part of Auberach. – Hugh Gullard/Bucketfull Of Brains