Listen to The Black Keys and Beck team up on ‘I’m With The Band’

The Black Keys have shared a new single with Beck, ‘I’m With The Band’. Check it out below.

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Both parties have teamed up previously for The Black Keys’ recent album ‘Ohio Players‘. Beck appeared on the retro-inspired single ‘Beautiful People (Stay High)’, as well as ‘Paper Crown’, both of which were released earlier this year.

Prior to that, The Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney revealed in an interview with NME last year that touring with Beck in 2003 was their “first big break”. Carney recalled how he met Beck at a party and handed him a bootleg version of their upcoming 2003 album ‘Thickfreakness’.

“Who’s going to listen to that shit? Beck did. And he invited us on tour a few weeks later, which was our first big break,” Carney recalled. “We’ve known him for 20 years now and he’s the lynchpin in the new evolution of The Black Keys.”

Now, they’ve teamed up once again for the new, psychedelic-imbued single ‘I’m With The Band’, shared today (November 1).

It marks the second release from the upcoming expanded version of their latest album, ‘Ohio Players‘, following ‘Mi Tormenta’, which featured DannyLux, and ‘Stay In Your Grave’ with Alice Cooper. The ‘Trophy Edition’ is set for release on November 15, and you can pre-order or pre-save here.

Check out ‘I’m With The Band’ below.

The expanded edition of their 12th studio album is a two-LP set in a gatefold jacket, and includes four additional tracks, an alternate cover, and new album sequencing.

There will also be an exclusive Amazon edition of the record pressed on purple vinyl, which will include the Amazon Music Original bonus track ‘Let Love Take Its Time’.

In a three-star review of ‘Ohio Players’, NME nodded to its litany of guest stars, including Beck, Noel Gallagher and Juicy J, and wrote: “Playing music with your pals isn’t a radical act – it’s what most musicians do and the bedrock of any scene in any city the world over – so given the fanfare the listener might reasonably expect ‘Ohio Players’ to hum along on the star-wattage of its guest list.

“Instead, this is a pretty good Black Keys record that chiefly serves to underline how wedded they are to the fundamentals of their own process.”

Carney spoke to NME last year and recalled their time working with the “incredible” Noel Gallagher in the studio. “He’s hilarious and super talented,” he said. “We were referring to him as ‘The Chord Lord’ because he’s just a perfectionist with it.”

‘Ohio Players (Trophy Edition)’ tracklist is:

1. ‘This Is Nowhere’
2. ‘Don’t Let Me Go’
3. ‘Beautiful People’ (Stay High)
4. ‘On The Game’
5. ‘Sin City’
6. ‘Candy And Her Friends’ (feat. Lil Noid)
7. ‘Read Em And Weep’
8. ‘I Forgot To Be Your Lover’
9. ‘Only Love Matters’
10. ‘Every Time You Leave’
11. ‘Mi Tormenta’ (feat. DannyLux)
12. ‘You’ll Pay’
13. ‘Paper Crown’ (feat. Beck and Juicy J)
14. ‘Live Till I Die’
15. ‘Stay in Your Grave’ (feat. Alice Cooper)
16. ‘Please Me’ (Till I’m Satisfied)
17. ‘Fever Tree’
18. ‘I’m With The Band’ (feat. Beck)

Elsewhere, The Black Keys announced earlier this year they have signed to new management following a public split from their former team.

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