Guitar World report that The Black Keys have released It Ain't Over,
the second single from their upcoming 11th studio album, Dropout Boogie.
Written by guitarist Dan Auerbach and
drummer Patrick Carney in tandem with Reigning Sound's Greg Cartwright, the
track follows the LP's first single – the bouncy, groove-driven Wild
Child – and features a markedly more soulful and relaxed feel
and arrangement.
Driven throughout by a brooding bassline over
Carney's mid-tempo stick work, It Ain't Over expands in the choruses
with expansive synth swells, and features occasional pockets of blues guitar magic,
including a fuzz-bathed passage at the 2:10 mark and some loose-time licks from
3:06. Check it out below.
Dropout Boogie is set to arrive via Nonesuch Records on May
13, one day before the 20th anniversary of the band's debut LP, The Big Come
Up. It follows last year's Delta Kream, a covers album in which Auerbach and Carney offer new
renditions of classics by R. L. Burnside, John Lee Hooker, Big Joe Williams and
more.
