The Black Keys announce new single ‘Lovely Folks (Keep Excessive)’ with ‘Lonely Boy’ throwback video
The Black Keys have a brand new track on the best way, ‘Lovely Folks (Keep Excessive)’.
The band confirmed that the monitor will drop on Friday (January 12) and was co-written with Dan the Automator and longtime good friend Beck, who labored extensively on their forthcoming album and just lately joined them on stage in Paris to carry out his hit ‘Loser’.
The band teased the track by sharing a snippet of the music video, which options the identical safety guard, Derrick T. Tuggle, dancing and lip syncing to the monitor in a name again to the video for his or her 2011 hit ‘Lonely Boy’.
Our new single “Lovely Folks (Keep Excessive)” written by Dan Auerbach, Patrick Carney, Beck and Dan the Automator comes out this Friday, January twelfth. Accessible to pre-save now https://t.co/af3jVsuA6f pic.twitter.com/c86mfIkpcX
— The Black Keys (@theblackkeys) January 8, 2024
The Black Keys spoke to NME about their forthcoming document – the follow-up to 2022’s ‘Dropout Boogie’ – final April, wherein they mentioned engaged on it with “unbelievable” Noel Gallagher.
“He’s hilarious and tremendous proficient,” mentioned Patrick Carney. “We have been referring to him as ‘The Chord Lord’ as a result of he’s only a perfectionist with it.”
“Dan and I are huge followers of him and Liam,” he continued. “Really, the Liam track ‘The whole lot’s Electrical’ is why we determined to work with Kurstin [who produced the track].”
Noel Gallagher has additionally commented on the music he’s made with The Black Keys, saying that the songs he’s co-written with them are “fucking wonderful”.
Talking to Rolling Stone, Gallagher, who frolicked with The Black Keys, shared: “We did every week within the studio in London and wrote three songs and I’ve gotta let you know, they’re fucking wonderful.”
In addition they defined how Beck obtained concerned and the way he introduced their imaginative and prescient into focus. “We began writing with him and that was the start of what we’re ending now, an epic album that’s our greatest document for positive,” mentioned Carney. “It received’t be out till subsequent 12 months although.”
Carney continued: “It’s a bizarre, full circle factor. Our first tour was with Sleater-Kinney they usually took us to a Saturday Night time Dwell afterparty as a result of they knew the musical visitor, Beck.”
“We’re working with lots of people and the vibe of the document is enjoyable,” he mentioned. “It’s reflective of our DJ nights in a approach, it’s an enormous Saturday night time social gathering document. We simply had folks come by way of the studio and throw slightly little bit of particular sauce at every track.
“There are simply so many various collaborations however there’s a thread by way of it with Dan and I filtering every little thing. It simply feels actually fucking wonderful.”
In the meantime, in November, Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox lined ‘Lonely Boy’ as a part of their viral on-line ‘Sunday Lunch’ collection.