Thickfreakness
| The Black Keys
Thickfreakness
Thickfreakness is the second studio album by American rock duo The Black Keys, released in 2003. It is their debut release for the Fat Possum record label, although in the UK and Europe it was co-released by Epitaph Records.- Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
The once-massive guitar is exponentially weightier, thicker, and juicier, swelling to Earth-shaking proportions.
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Sputnik Music
The album has incredible replay value despite its barebones approach, and its brevity keeps the experience fresh.
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Consequence of Sound
What’s remarkable is how tight and focused it sounds given this expedited timeline.
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Drowned in Sound
‘Thickfreakness’ is an album stripped bare to a level beyond Jack and Meg’s Detroit-garage stylings.
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All Music
Performed, recorded, and produced Thickfreakness all by their lonesome in a single day -- further proof these guys are not messing around.
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No Depression
Played properly -- that is, loudly -- the songs on thickfreakness adhere with the same tenacity of the best '60s pop radio.
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Tiny Mix Tapes
The Black Keys have successfully emerged as contenders of the best garage-blues rock title by continuing to build on the groundwork .
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Stars and Stripes
From the catchy opening riff, don’t be surprised if your head starts bobbing and your toe starts tapping as the Keys dare you to not crank your stereo.
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Pop Matters
The groups sophomore effort, thickfreakness, is being welcomed on the wings of the highest expectations.
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Rock Music Review
You don't need anger to play music, you just need the originality and fervor of groups like The Black Keys.
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Spectrum Culture
It’s pure passion expressed through chords, beats and wails. The album’s fevered devotion to a form of music that reaches back.
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Silent Uproar
The soul to make a guitar sound like it is weeping and make you feel like you just had your heart broken.
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Mr. Hipster
He sounds like an old, cracked blues man but, as it turns out, is just a young, white guy with a bad beard. The stuff just rocks, plain and simple.
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Norman Records
All in all a solid blues-rock album.
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Turntable Kitchen
This is a band that doesn’t have a bad album in their catalog, and yet many of the songs on Thickfreakness still stand out as some of the band’s best.
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Diffuser
Rattles with garage-rock electricity, a distortion-packed exercise in controlled chaos.
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AV Club
The Black Keys' music sounds good, but until it transcends the same old borrowed words about lovers who leave in the night, it won't seem necessary.
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Music Direct
Sophomore album leavens their garage Blues with enough innovation to keep things interesting, taking full advantage of Dan Auerbach’s full-throated growl and Patrick Carney's bigger than life drum work.
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FYE
If you want to hear a rock band confront the blues with soul, muscle, and respect, then Thickfreakness is right up your alley.
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Play Too Much
The sound envelopes the listener like a big old, booze drenched hug and it’s awesome.
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Orlando Weekly
The full-bodied thrust they deliver is that much more impressive.
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