Reviewing The Black Keys' 2010 top ten breakthrough album Brothers, Rolling Stone called the duo 'a two-man combo with a big-band mind.' That description seems downright prophetic now. With the hard-rocking El Camino, The Black Keys' fourth Nonesuch release, guitarist-singer Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney conjure up an exhilarating, stadium-sized sound in collaboration with producer and friend Danger Mouse. El Camino boasts a no-nonsense brilliance: The pace is fast, the mood is upbeat, the choruses unfailingly addictive ” made for shouting along, preferably in a large, sweaty crowd.A band already at the top of its game has gotten even better. And The Black Keys have done pretty damn well so far this year, with three 2011 Grammy awards for Brothers under their belt, an MTV Video Music Award for 'Tighten Up,' more than 850,000 copies of Brothers sold in the U.S., and upwards of a million units worldwide, plus innumerable licensing placements in film, TV, and commercials. El Camino features one stand-out track after another, such as first single 'Lonely Boy,' 'Gold on the Ceiling,' and the surprising, acoustic-guitar-driven, tempo-shifting 'Little Black Submarines.'This record is more straight ahead rock and roll ” raw, driving, and back to basics,' says Auerbach. As Carney has put it, The Black Keys 'respect the past while being in the present,' and that formula has made them sound like nothing less than the future of rock-and-roll. While the largely self-produced Brothers, recorded at the famed Muscle Shoals Studio in Alabama, had a more soul and blues-oriented sound, El Camino often recalls the blitzkrieg-paced British-style rock of the 1960s and '70s, post-Beatles and pre-punk: artists like T-Rex, The Sweet,