Dan Auerbach plays the first of two New York City shows tonight at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, with openers (and backing band) Hacienda plus Those Darlins. They'll all head into Manhattan to play Bowery Ballroom Tuesday night.

Yesterday's New York Times featured a profile of Dan by music critic Nate Chinen, who describes Dan's "brooding new solo debut," Keep It Hid, as "an album at once more intimate and less exposed than his work with the Black Keys." The new record, says Chinen, "often sounds as if sprung from a psychedelic vault ... But the album doesn’t quite feel retro or especially arcane."

The two discuss the many musical influences on Dan's work, particularly Memphis blues, the muddier the better, which leads Chinen to write of Keep It Hid, "The tone of the songs is dark ... but their effect is rousing, befitting someone who says he derives happiness from unhappy music."

Read the article at nytimes.com.

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American Songwriter magazine's Brittney McKenna cites as the new album's stand-out tracks those "that flirt with folk and emphasize Auerbach’s unique voice." She imagines that its opening track, "Trouble Weighs a Ton," "could have easily been the product of a late night conversation between Auerbach and Ray LaMontagne—about love and loss, over cigarettes and whiskey."

She continues, "The delicate guitar arrangement and carefully delivered vocals of 'When the Night Comes' achieve a subtle sincerity rarely heard from Keys-era Auerbach, typically known for his rock and roll wail. Auerbach’s first forays into folk are successful ones."

Read the review at americansongwriter.com.

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