'El Camino' is The Black Key's wonderful seventh album. Hip hop mistro Danger Mouse is back producing and it is for the better, he produced their fifth album 'Attack & Release' and gave it a bit of an arty tinge. As with every Black Key's album 'El Camino' is full of awesome blues rock jams. It opens with the great first single 'Lonely Boy', and follows on with the not as great but still good 'Dead & Gone'. One of my highlights in this album was the future single 'Gold On The Ceiling' which is full of fuzzy guitars and and a sweet as organ riff. Another album highlight would be 'Little Black Submarines' which goes from a soft acoustic ballad to thrashing guitar halfway through and you'd swear Jimmy Page wrote it. Though the second half of the album is a little bit weaker it is still thoroughly enjoyable with songs like 'Sister', 'Stop Stop' and 'Nova Baby', along with many others. 'El Camino' would have to be one of my favourite albums of 2011. It's great driving music and every song is worth listening to.
8.5/10
Tomm
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