The Black Keys will release No Rain, No Flowers later this year, making it their fourth album in a five-year span. And drummer Patrick Carney doesn't understand why more acts aren't that prolific.
Carney tells Spin, “Music is designed to be made and released quickly. I don’t think it benefits from sitting on [crap] for like Chinese Democracy-level. No one’s ever benefited from taking three years to make a [bleeping] album. When we first started, we were making a record a year. That’s how often a healthy band should be putting out records."
Of course, when relations between Carney and Dan Auerbach were at their lowest, The Black Keys went five years between albums from 2014 to 2019.
They will be at Red Rocks on May 27th---Ford Amp in COS on May 25th