It’s sleek and sinewy like Little Willie John’s foundational 1956 “Fever,” and it’s got a strutting four-on-the-floor like the Bee Gees’ “Night Fever.” But the first offering from the Black Keys’ Turn Blue (out now) gives its vintage rock & roll theme a garage-psychedelic fine-tuning, collapsing decades of history into music that still feels forward-moving.
It’s sleek and sinewy like Little Willie John’s foundational 1956 “Fever,” and it’s got a strutting four-on-the-floor like the Bee Gees’ “Night Fever.” But the first offering from the Black Keys’ Turn Blue (out now) gives its vintage rock & roll theme a garage-psychedelic fine-tuning, collapsing decades of history into music that still feels forward-moving.
