:date: 2012-02-08 10:03 .. index:: music The black keys/El camino ======================== .. image:: /_images/images/gallery/2012/2012-mediacover/cdcover-the_black_keys-el_camino.jpg :alt: The Black Keys/El Camino :align: center :scale: 100 It's over. 2011 has passed. Finito. But still, more and more albums from last year are hitting my desk and I wonder where have they been when they've been published? I didn't see them coming, appearing, what-so-ever. But that's no excuse for not having `The black Keys `__ at least mentioned here once. I saw them in 2007 in Berlin supporting :ref:`Pearl Jam <2010-pearl_jam>`. The noise only two people on a stage can make was astonishing (I'm talking about hand-made music here, man!). Last year now *El Camino* came out. From the first song you already now their style. They lost a bit of the roughness they had in the beginning. I remember reading the story that they recorded their first songs on a small tape-something-recorder in their garage, which must have supported the unique sound they always had. Luckily the were able to keep at least a bit of it so it's still easy to identify them when you suddenly hear a song or two. Try it out. I guess you've already heard at least a couple of songs without probably know it. They appeared in a couple of commercials, :ref:`TV-Series <2011-misfits>` and other places in the background. Links: `Official Website `__