I went through a breakup, and that shows itself on the record. The lyrics on the record were definitely influenced by my year, and it was a tough year. The song "Turn Blue" seems like a dark story: It's someone who's dealing with some undefined trouble, and he's not sure that everybody understands what he's going through.ĭAN AUERBACH: Yeah, that's definitely there. INSKEEP: You talk about this being a darker album. But for this record, it seemed appropriate to put the lightest, most straightforward song at the end. We normally end every record with the saddest, heaviest, slowest song - and that's not necessarily been on purpose. It's also dark and expansive, I think, and when we listened to the sequence, we felt like it needed some kind of reprieve. Are you signaling something by doing that?ĬARNEY: Well, this record's the heaviest, lyrically, that we've ever made. "Gotta Get Away" is the song I would I identify here. It reminds me: This is not the first album you guys have done where there's a consistent most of the the way through, and then one song that feels different and kind of like a throwback. INSKEEP: Which is just a straightforward jam, basically. There are songs on this record that are coming from the same place as songs on The Big Come Up - like "Gotta Get Away," the last song. But in the grand scheme of things, I can see the thread between this record and our first record. PATRICK CARNEY: I think every record sounds different than the last to varying degrees: The difference between Brothers and El Camino I think is pretty huge, and El Camino to Turn Blue is also pretty drastic. STEVE INSKEEP: First off, you tell me if you agree with this statement: The music on Turn Blue sounds different than what you were doing five years ago, seven years ago. Hear the radio version at the audio link, and read more of their conversation below. Picking up where the band's recent conversation with All Songs Considered left off, Steve Inskeep recently reconnected with The Black Keys to talk about what has and has not changed in Auerbach and Carney's music, their process and their personal lives.
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