Late last year, The Black Keys celebrated a musical milestone with a deluxe reissue of Brothers in honor of the album’s 10th anniversary. The expanded release arrived in December and included a pair of songs that were left off the original album. As a farewell to 2020, The Black Keys shared the two previously-unheard Brothers singles, “Keep My Name Outta Your Mouth” and “Black Mud Part II”, on YouTube on January 1st.
The Deluxe Anniversary Edition of Brothers arrived physically and on streaming platforms on December 18th and featured a number of editions to what proved to be the Akron, OH-bred duo’s mainstream breakthrough. In addition to “Keep My Name Outta Your Mouth” and “Black Mud Part II”, the re-release also hosted the rarity “Chop and Change”, which would appear on the soundtrack for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.
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These two new-to-you singles are reminiscent of a bygone era of The Black Keys. In 2010, the Patrick Carney and Dan Auerbach outfit was a garage rock staple of the American underground alternative scene. With Brothers, however, the band finally poked its head out into the sunlight of commercial success with “Tighten Up” which spent ten weeks at number one on the Alternative Songs chart.
The two extra songs included on the Brothers expanded edition, however, aren’t any of those radio-friendly earworms. Rather, “Keep My Name Outta Your Mouth” is still awash in the indie club, backroom fuzz that was the foundation of the group’s early sound. The arrival of Auerbach’s vocals do provide some resemblance to the group’s future star power, but it is well hidden beneath an impenetrable layer of instrumental distortion. Later, the lyricless “Black Mud Part II” serves as a coda to “Black Mud” found earlier on the record, and provides an extra two-and-a-half minutes of eerie alternative soundscapes.
Listen to previously-unreleased Brothers singles “Keep My Name Outta Your Mouth” and “Black Mud Part II” by The Black Keys and scroll down to stream the whole album. Physical copies of the album are still available for purchase here.
The Black Keys – “Keep My Name Outta Your Mouth”
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The Black Keys – “Black Mud Part II”
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The Black Keys – Brothers (Deluxe Remastered Anniversary Edition)