The Black Keys – Peaches! (Indie) (Bone Vinyl)

The Black Keys Peaches! (Indie) (Bone Vinyl) vinyl is the one to own if you care about how this record was actually made, not just how it sounds pressed onto standard black wax. Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney have been making records together since Akron, Ohio in the early 2000s, and over two decades they have built one of the most consistent catalogs in contemporary rock, driven by a two-piece chemistry that keeps getting stripped back further rather than layered up. This is their fourteenth studio album and their sixth since 2019, a pace that would alarm most bands but seems to suit them just fine.

What Makes Peaches! Worth Your Attention

Auerbach has described Peaches! as the band’s most natural record since The Big Come Up, their 2002 debut, and the process backs that up. All ten songs were tracked with every musician playing in the same room together, minimal overdubs, the kind of approach that dies in most modern studios but clearly still lives in theirs. On top of that, it is the first Black Keys record mixed entirely by the band themselves since Magic Potion in 2006. You can hear that ownership in the tracklist, ten songs including “Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire,” “Who’s Been Foolin’ You,” and “Nobody But You Baby,” that feel pulled directly from the duo’s obsessive record-collecting habits. In recent years those habits have spilled into their ongoing Record Hang DJ nights, where Auerbach and Carney spin vintage 45s for packed dancefloors around the world. Peaches! sounds like a record made by two people who have spent serious time in the crates.

The Black Keys Peaches! (Indie) (Bone Vinyl) Pressing Details

This is the indie retail exclusive pressing on bone vinyl, released through Warner (catalog WARNER 4823575), and it is the format that separates a standard purchase from a considered one. Bone vinyl presses beautifully and looks genuinely distinctive on a shelf or a turntable, and indie exclusives on colored wax from major-label releases tend to move quickly and quietly disappear. The cover art adds another reason to own this physically. It draws from the photography of William Eggleston, the Memphis-born photographer whose work is among the most referenced in American visual culture, with art direction handled by Michael Carney, Patrick’s brother, returning to oversee the design as he has done across much of the band’s visual history. That continuity matters. This is a complete object, not just a record in a sleeve.

Who Should Buy This

If you follow the Black Keys closely, this pressing is the correct one to pick up. If you are newer to them, Peaches! is a strong entry point precisely because it is so unadorned. Bone vinyl, indie exclusive, Eggleston-inspired art, and a back-to-basics recording philosophy. Everything here is intentional.

Tracklist

1. WHERE THERE'S SMOKE, THERE'S FIRE
2. STOP ARGUING OVER ME
3. WHO'S BEEN FOOLIN' YOU
4. IT'S A DREAM
5. TOMORROW NIGHT
6. YOU GOT TO LOSE
7. TELL ME YOU LOVE ME
8. SHE DOES IT RIGHT
9. FIREMAN RING THE BELL
10. NOBODY BUT YOU BABY