Album review: The Black Keys, 'Turn Blue'

On "Turn Blue" (Nonesuch), their eighth album, the Black Keys slip further away from their muddy, grungy blues-rock origins. The duo of Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney began more than a decade ago with an Ohio-centric garage-punk take on Mississippi hill-country boogie. Over seven increasingly ambitious albums, they refined the approach, and "Turn Blue" contains their most atmospheric and somber music yet.

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