The Black Keys Dropout Boogie album cover

The Black Keys ‘Dropout Boogie’

The Black Keys have announced their new studio album, ‘Dropout Boogie’ set to release May 13, 2022 via Nonesuch Records. The band also shared a new blues rocking single “Wild Child.” See below.

Dropout Boogie features guests Billy F. Gibbons (ZZ Top), Greg Cartwright (Reigning Sound), and Angelo Petraglia (Kings Of Leon’s producer and co-writer.) Cartwright and Petraglia are featured on the new groove-based tune “Wild Child.”

Watch “Wild Child”

 
A follow up to Delta Kream (2021), Dropout Boogie is the band’s 11th studio album and was written by Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney. The new album captures a few first takes that are reminiscent of the stripped-down blues-rock of the band’s earlier days when making music together. The album drops one day before the 20th anniversary of the band’s debut LP, The Big Come Up.

Auerbach said, “I’ve never really had to work at it. Whenever we’d get together, we’d just make music you know? We didn’t know what we were going to do, but we’d just do it and it would sound cool.” He continued. “It’s the natural chemistry Pat and I have. Being in a band this long is a testament to that. It was a real gift we were give n. I mean, the odds of being plopped down a block and a half from each other in Akron, Ohio—it just seems crazy.”

“Living in Nashville and making records here has opened both of our minds to that experience a little more,” Auerbach said about inviting Cartwright and Petraglia into The Black Keys’ sessions. “I knew Pat would love working with both of these guys, so we decided to give it a shot. It was the first time we’d ever done that. It was fun as hell. We just sat around a table with acoustic guitars and worked out the song ahead of time.”

The band will support the new record on a North American tour, to start in July, making stops in Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia and more, wrapping up in Dallas in October.

Dropout Boogie is available for pre-order now. 

For more information on The Black Keys and their North American tour, see their website here.