Wanna Listen to 5 Tracks from Black Keys' "El Camino"? You Should, Because They're AWESOME.

As you're probably well aware by now, The Black Keys are getting set to release their seventh album El Camino a week from today.  Well, you can sample nearly half of the album right now by entering your email addy and postal code below.  Fully co-produced by Danger Mouse (who also co-helmed their massive breakthrough hit Tighten Up for last year's Album of the Year runner-up Brothers), El Camino doesn't really expand on Brothers' mix of rock, blues, soul and R&B, but it does trim off that album's fat in terms of ballads.  So as to say, there are none on El Camino; it's a brisk, punchy, balls-to-the-wall thrill ride from cover to cover.  In fact, the opening half of Little Black Submarines (which will blow your mind and possibly make Jack White shit his drawers) is the only breather you get in the album's 38 minutes.  You can judge the whole thing for itself on December 6, but my Album of the Year race just found another horse.