Black Keys - Ohio Players (Exclusive Red Vinyl)

The Black Keys return in 2024 with their new album Ohio Players. Reuniting with Greg Cartwright and Angelo Petraglia, who joined Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney on 2022's Dropout Boogie - highlights include the lead single "Beautiful People (Stay High)". Ohio Players is The Black Keys’ fourth album in five years, a momentum with a simple explanation, Auerbach says: “We never stopped recording.”

There was his and Carney’s reunion, after a five-year hiatus, on 2019’s Let’s Rock, then the 2021 blast of Mississippi-hill-country covers, Delta Kream. A rapid-fire follow-up of new originals, 2022’s Dropout Boogie, featured the duo working with outside writers for the first time: Greg Cartwright of Memphis rockers Reigning Sound and Angelo Petraglia, who has worked with Kings of Leon and the teenage Taylor Swift.

“We'd never worked harder to make a record,” Dan Auerbach says. “It's never taken us this long to make an album. We took our time and did it right.What we wanted to accomplish with this record was make something that was fun,” Patrick Carney says. “And something that most bands 20 years into their career don’t make, which is an approachable, fun record that is also cool.”

While making Ohio Players, a title inspired by the legendary Dayton, OH funk band of the same name, The Black Keys were also DJing dance parties in cities around the world that they called “record hangs,” spinning 45s from their own eclectic and growing collections. The spirit of those parties infused the album’s DNA.

Exclusive RED vinyl produced by Easy Eye Sound in 2024. Only 8500 copies worldwide.