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After teasing The Night Before, back when they gave that interview about their not-great 2024 – during which they parted ways with their management and cancelled an entire tour due to lackluster tickets sales – The Black Keys have officially unveiled the new album from which it was taken; No Rain, No Flowers will drop Friday August 08, and we now have the title track.
Says Patrick Carney in a media release: “We wanted to go straight to the source — into the room with people known for their songwriting. Daniel Tashian was one of the first people I met after moving to Nashville, and we’ve been fans of Scott Storch forever.” Dan Auerbach says, “I had worked with Rick Nowels on Lana Del Rey’s Ultraviolence. We’d never really collaborated with a keyboard player or someone who writes on piano the way he does, but it clicked immediately … This whole album was really labored over with a lot of love. We hope you feel that.”