Hammerhart and uncompromising ...

... It comes to the Black Keys Album -Magic Potion- to business. I joined the band from Akron to their last album -El Camino- and was thrilled. Currently Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney show what they have to offer live. The gig in Berlin last weekend was highly praised and acclaimed it. Honestly, earthy, hard and without frills, these are the attributes that The Black Keys distinguished. Since I've wondered at the meetings that the band's music with the White Stripes was compared. When I now, however, the 2006 album -Magic Potion- transported into the player, I understood.

The opener -Just got to loading sounds indeed as if the White Stripes had made along with Jimi Hendrix a plate. Then it's just as uncompromising on with -Your touch. Only -Your the one- can get a little time to air. -Give Your heart away service is so bluesy, as it can only be a song. In -Strange Desire- and -Modern Times- yelling and schrammelt Auerbach's guitar like a chainsaw through the melody, while Carney handled the drums with power. A song like -Goodbye Babylon- could be right out of the sixties or seventies. In -Black Door- it is again rough and hard. The bouncer -Elevator- begins with an overdriven guitar and then lands safely in blues rock waters of the Black Keys.

If you like blues rock and thereby like a track like harder and louder, and he will love -Magic Potion-. Not for nothing keeping some fans this album, for the best of the Black Keys. Personally -Magic Potion- was a bit too hard and not as varied as -El Camino-. But you know: The tastes are different and in the end they must in any case decide whether you like it or not ...