The Black Keys - Dropout Boogie Artist_Weldon Irvine expanding in time and space

expanding in time and space via the subtraction of shifting elements

or a crater left in the wake of creative process

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The Black Keys - Dropout Boogie Artist_Weldon Irvine expanding in time and spaceAs they've done their entire career, The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney wrote all of the material for their 2022 album, Dropout Boogie, in the studio, and the album captures a number of first takes that hark back to the stripped down blues rock of their early days making music together in Akron, Ohio, basements. "That's always been the beauty of the thing Pat and I do. It's instant," Auerbach says. "We've never really had to work at it.