The Black Keys - Brothers

Brothers 10th Anniversary Edition 9 x 7-inch vinyl box set!

The duo's breakthrough album fully remastered!

Includes three songs not on the original album version

Sixty-page book with liner notes written by David Friche plus many previously unseen photos!

Box set cover features heat-sensitive ink that displays the text

2010 Grammy winner Best Alternative Album, Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals ("Tighten Up"), Producer of the Year (Danger Mouse, "Tighten Up")

Included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die

This 10th Anniversary Edition 9 x 7-inch Box Set of Brothers by the Black Keys features the album tracks pressed on nine individual 7-inch singles. The set contains a 60-page book featuring new liner notes written by David Fricke and a slew of previously unseen photos. The cover for the box set features heat sensitive ink that displays the text. The set is limited to 7,500 copies globally.

Brothers was primarily cut at the legendary Muscle Shoals studio in Alabama and the result by the duo was an even more intensely focused, deeply soulful set that includes a cover of Jerry Butler's "Never Gonna Give You Up." The performances are inventive and impassioned: Dan Auerbach extends his vocal range to falsetto on the lead-off track "Everlasting Light" and "The Only One"; "Howlin' For You" opens with a Gary Glitter-style drum riff and the chorus practically invites singing along. The tunes offer a surprising amount of lyrical candor and more than a little dark humor; the grooves alternate between ballsy swagger and bluesy rumination.

Danger Mouse returned to co-produce "Tighten Up" on Brothers, but for the most part, the duo was on its own during their 10 day stretch at Muscle Shoals. They did additional recording at Auerbach's Easy Eye Sound System in Akron and The Bunker in Brooklyn. The album was mixed by engineer Tchad Blake, a veteran of sessions with Los Lobos, Pearl Jam and Peter Gabriel. Says Carney, "The way he approaches mixing is the same way we approach making music. Respecting the past while being in the present."

Brothers debuted at No. 2 in the U.S. and went on to win three Grammy Awards and an MTV Video Music Award, as well as topping numerous year-end lists, including iTunes, NPR, and Rolling Stone. It is now certified RIAA platinum.

Vinyl 1

1. Everlasting Light

2. Next Girl

Vinyl 2

1. Tighten Up

2. Howlin' for You

Vinyl 3

1. She's Long Gone

2. Black Mud

Vinyl 4

1. The Only One

2. Too Afraid to Love You

Vinyl 5

1. Ten Cent Pistol

2. Sinister Kid

Vinyl 6

1. The Go Getter

2. I'm Not the One

Vinyl 7

1. Unknown Brother

2. Never Gonna Give You Up

Vinyl 8

1. These Days

2. Chop and Change

Vinyl 9

1. Keep My Name Outta Your Mouth

2. Black Mud Part II

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