Black Keys "El Camino" [2011]

As if the Black Keys' played-out hairy-dick Bad Company phony soul riffs and vocal lines weren't enough to keep any discerning listener of music far away from a new release by the two guys on the planet who make Joey Ramone look like George Clooney, on "El Camino" the duo opts for "production values" for its latest volume of blooze-rawk filler for trashy dumbasses. It's clear people like Black Keys never learn the lessons of the past: adding female backup singers and keyboard accents to their particularly lame brand of garage rock only kills the listening experience all the more, like beating a dead horse and then shooting it 50 times. This "El Camino" is a total lemon, and it needs to be relegated to the scrap heap. Or at least the cut-out bin.