"A welcome return to the cranked-up amps, distortion and rawness that first fuelled them." The Black Keys go back to basics on the revitalised, urgent and gloriously unrefined Peaches!

The Black Keys outside a bar in Memphis.

While The Black Keys are no strangers to covers – those filthy versions of The Beatles’ She Said, She Said and The Sonics-inspired Have Love Will Travel from their earliest days still linger – they’ve long become estranged from the grit and grime that once defined their sound.

Indeed, you’d have to go back to 2008’s Attack And Release to find the band who, alongside The White Stripes, infused the blues with a garage-punk sensibility that dragged the form towards a new generation. And let’s not forget 2006’s Chulahoma EP, a celebration of Mississippi bluesman Junior Kimbrough, while 2021’s Delta Kreme paid tribute to his regional compatriots.