Black Keys, the first single from “Peaches!” is “You Got To Lose”
THE Black Keys they are back with the new single “You Got To Lose” taken from their upcoming album “Peaches!”out May 1 on Easy Eye Sound/Warner Records. The video that accompanies the song is directed by EJ McLeavey-Fisherand centers on the surprise concert the band played last month at the Memphis juke joint, theHernando’s Hide-A-Way.
“Peaches!”
the band’s fourteenth studio album, which follows in the discography
“No rain no flowers”
(
read the review here
) released in August 2025, is a collection of 10 songs described by the singer
Dan Auerbach
as the band’s “most natural album” since their 2002 debut,
“The Big Come Up”
.
The project came about in the wake of Auerbach’s late father’s diagnosis of esophageal cancer while he was staying at Dan’s house in Nashville. Patrick Carneythe bandmate of Black Keyshe knew without having to ask “that it would be good for Dan to have something to do.” That something, of course, was going into the studio and turning on the amps.
“We weren’t making a record. We were just improvising, like it was just for us,” he says Dan Auerbach. “It was something really primal, at a time when we were all very nervous. We were going through a hard time and trying to cheer ourselves up. I think my dad’s illness made me not want to worry about shit and just made me want to scream for a while.”
The album was recorded with all the musicians playing in the same room with very few overdubs and is the first album mixed entirely by the band since 2006, the year of publication of “Magic Potion”. “Everything was recorded live in one take, including the vocals,” he adds Patrick Carney. “It was a nightmare to mix, but we managed to get a raw, dirty sound.”
The songs of “Peaches!” reflect Dan and Patrick’s obsession with collecting records, which in recent years has degenerated into a series of dance parties with Record Hang DJ set. The latter fueled a period of musical exploration for both. “I was specifically looking for 45s to play at the Record Hang,” says Dan, “but sometimes I’d find a song and think, ‘This would be fun to play live with Pat.’”
The cover of “Peaches!” it is illustrated with an image of the photographer William Egglestonoriginally from Memphis, while Patrick’s brother, Michael Carneytook care of the design and artistic direction of the packaging, as he had already done for the first albums Black Keyswinning a Grammy for the cover of “Brothers” (read the review here). “Peaches!” It will be available on vinyl, CD, cassette and digital format.
Tracklist:
01. Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire
02. Stop Arguing Over Me
03. Who’s Been Foolin’ You
04. It’s a Dream
05. Tomorrow Night
06. You Got To Lose
07. Tell Me You Love Me
08. She Does It Right
09. Fireman Ring the Bell
10. Nobody But You Baby
