The Black Keys have closed out the UK leg of their Attack & Release tour and will soon be heading south for stops in Australia and New Zealand in mid-June. Reviewing the new album, JamBase's Dennis Cook describes it as music that "crawls into your marrow and disturbs your rest. It's not the blues but it's gone drinking with them. For sure, it's rock 'n' roll but with a haunted echo behind even the good time pronouncements."

On Attack & Release, Pat and Dan joined forces with Danger Mouse to create their first non self-produced effort, allowing the band to retain its essentially Black Keys sound while at the same time propelling it forward. "Attack refines their virtues and gooses their creative adrenal gland in a big way," says Cook. "Both instantly accessible and a slow boil, the album operates on a lot of levels even when you don't think it is."

The reviewer asserts both that Dan's "vocals truly come into their own here" and that "the Keys have never written more clearly or effectively" than they do here. He concludes:

It'd be easy enough to keep heaping praise on various elements, but suffice it to say the imagination and talent gathered on Attack & Release make it a shoe-in for Best of 2008 lists everywhere. Often that sounds like hype but in this case it's just a statement of fact. Once in a while quality just shines out in a way that can't be denied.

To read the full review, visit jambase.com.