The Black Keys, photo by Larry Niehaus

The Black Keys have returned to unveil Peaches!, their 14th studio album. Due to arrive on May 1 via Easy Eye Sound, the garage-rock duo of Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney herald their follow-up to 2025’s No Rain, No Flowers as their “most natural record” since their 2002 debut, owing to its roots in raw expression reminiscent of their earliest creative practices. To preview the rough and rowdy return to form, they’ve shared the advance single “You Got to Lose.”

Peaches! was born from the period following Auerbach’s father’s diagnosis with esophageal cancer, and a rapid decline in his Nashville home that cast a cloud of dread and uncertainty over the artists. Knowing his closest friend and collaborator well, Carney proposed exorcising the experience in the studio, and they cut their new project in a fevered improvisational outburst.

“We weren’t making a record,” Auerbach expresses in a release. “We were just jamming, like this is for us. Really primal, in a moment when all the nerves were raw, just kinda screaming. We were going through a lot, trying to lift our spirits. I think my dad getting sick made me not give a fuck and just wanna scream for a bit.”

Lit up by the same fiery passion that charged their debut, the duo crashed back into old habits and recorded their eclectic 10-track set – inspired by their obsessive deep-cut vinyl listening sessions – with no isolation and few overdubs. All the musicians piled into the booth and let their sounds boom together in a unified fuzz, which Auerbach and Carney mixed on their own for the first time since 2006’s Magic Potion. “Everything was all cut live in one with no separation, including vocals,” Carney says. “It was a nightmare to mix but we got it sounding raw and filthy.”

“Shitty is pretty,” Dan echoes.

“You Got to Lose” taps into a muscular, possessed intensity, which Auerbach and Carney channel into a thrashing, stomping gallop torn open by scorching blues riffs. Riding that fireball arrangement for the Ike Turner-penned track, Auerbach howls about trouble coming with the kind of matter-of-fact pragmatism that wrenches hard-earned clarity from luck’s downturns.

Peaches! is available to pre-order now. Listen to “You Got to Lose” below, and read on for the album’s full tracklist.

Peaches! – The Black Keys:

01. Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire

02. Stop Arguing Over Me

03. Who’s Been Foolin’ You

04. It’s a Dream

05. Tomorrow Night

06. You Got To Lose

07. Tell Me You Love Me

08. She Does It Right

09. Fireman Ring the Bell

10. Nobody But You Baby