The Arcs' debut album, Yours, Dreamily, is out today on Nonesuch Records. The Arcs are Dan Auerbach, Leon Michels, Richard Swift, Homer Steinweiss, and Nick Movshon. Also featured on the album are Kenny Vaughan and Mariachi Flor de Toloache. To pick up a copy now, head to your local music shop, iTunes, Amazon, The Arcs Shop, or the Nonesuch Store, where CD and vinyl orders include a download of the complete album at checkout and the digital album is also available to purchase.

The group collaboratively wrote and recorded 13 tracks for Yours, Dreamily, with the musicians playing a large array of roles both vocally and instrumentally. Co-produced by Auerbach and Michels, the album was recorded in roughly two weeks through spontaneous, informal sessions across the country at the Sound Factory in Los Angeles, the Diamond Mine in Queens, Auerbach's Easy Eye Sound in Nashville, and in a lounge room at Electric Lady in Manhattan. Tchad Blake mixed the album on his horse farm in Wales.

Dan Auerbach was featured on NPR's All Things Considered last night. He spoke with NPR's Rachel Martin about the new album and the connections he and his band mates share. You can hear the interview here:

Rolling Stone, in its lead review, gives the new album four stars. "Yours, Dreamily, takes what Auerbach does at his best, in and out of the Keys—confessional, texturally enriched blues propelled with garage-rock force—and adds a riveting jump in eccentricity," writes reviewer David Fricke.

"Yours, Dreamily, captures the spontaneity of players in a room as they come up with something new in the moment," writes NPR's Mike Katzif. "Right from the drop, Yours, Dreamily, ignites like a cigarette flicked on a stream of gasoline. The snarling melodies, warbling horn lines and in-the-pocket beats transport listeners into the album's pulpy world of '70s exploitation films and gritty biker-gang movies." Katzif later declares Yours, Dreamily, to be "one of Auerbach's most ambitious and fully realized albums" and the band to be "an enduring, endlessly rewarding collaboration."

The Associated Press calls the new album "a funky, synthesizer-heavy collection of garage rock songs as varied as the musicians involved."

"The Arcs most assuredly succeed on Yours, Dreamily," says the Boston Globe's Sarah Rodman, with a sound "like one of the world’s baddest yet dreamiest garage-soul bands ... Yours, Dreamily, satisfyingly careers from gauzy, reverb-soaked late-night soundscapes to raucous, fuzzy freak-outs."

Entertainment Weekly gives the album an A-, saying it "lands right in the meaty part of the psychedelic curve with jolts of lush hypno-soul and tough garage-edelia."

Mojo's Andrew Perry, in his four-star review of the new album, writes, referencing The Black Keys' latest album: "Yours, Dreamily, transports Turn Blue's spooked, soulful vibe further out to often cosmic dimensions, usually via outré synth noises, echoes and wibbly-wobbly effects, which light up the sound with lysergic potency. It's a down-tempo treat, tailor-made for sundazed summer evening drives with the windows down. Sexy, slinky, even desert-like. Auerbach delivers some of his hottest-ever guitar. This one, for sure, is a keeper."

Yours, Dreamily, is one of Q magazine’s Albums of the Month. "Auerbach’s restless muse shows no signs of letting up," writes Q's Paul Moody in a four-star review. "Yours, Dreamily, makes for fascinating listening. Raw emotions require a suitable musical backdrop and he runs riot, delivering a ragged musical gumbo of Southern soul, rock and psychedelia that touches nerves. Dark nights of the soul rarely come with soundtracks this compelling."

The album earns an eight out of ten in Uncut. The band's lineup allows "The Arcs to experiment seamlessly with melody and structure," writes reviewer Andy Gill. "The alliance of several guitarists allows for creation of an exotic, multivalent music."

"Dan Auerbach never fails to impress," writes NME's Leonie Cooper. "The latest string to the overloaded bow of the Black Keys frontman, producer extraordinaire and solo artist is his work at the helm of The Arcs—a laid back, gritty soul collective."

The Independent gives the album four stars, saying: "The Arcs blends Auerbach’s falsetto soul tone with a dreamily textured psychedlia streaked and stratified with myriad guitar lines." Total Guitar gives it four stars as well, calling it "Ear candy of the highest order. Essential for Dan Auerbach fans, higly recommended for everyone else. Excellent." The Independent on Sunday adds: "There’ll be more. Please."

"Yours, Dreamily, is so rambunctious and confident," raves Esquire UK. "It bursts with metallic blues guitar, butch-yet-blousy choruses, thumping drums, judiciously deployed brass and a spirit of louche, late-Sixties motorcycle hippy-Mexicana and is as polished and pleasing a side project as you could dare to hope for. Auerbach’s talent and melodic sensibilities can’t be suppressed, no matter how hard he tries."

CBC Music's Jesse Kinos-Goodin says: "Yours, Dreamily, feels off the cuff, inspired, and is a completely immersive experience as songs fold in on each other in an undulating collision of influences."