Yours, Dreamily, is New York NPR member station WFUV's New Dig of the week."Since the paths of these musicians have crossed many times over the years, they have a natural rapport," WFUV's Darren DeVivo writes of the band: Dan Auerbach, Leon Michels, Richard Swift, Homer Steinweiss, and Nick Movshon. "Synthetic, electronic grooves, augmented by a smattering of loops and samples, weave in and out of the album. Auerbach’s elastic vocals are at the core while his wiry guitar buzzes and twirls around funky retro-‘70s melodies ... [I]t’s pretty clear that the guitarist, singer and songwriter relishes the chance to show an entirely different side of his rock ‘n’ roll temperament."
Yours, Dreamily, is also Album of the Week at Minnesota Public Radio's The Current and is available now from B&T.
"With The Arcs, we get a familiar mix of soulful, bluesy, psychedelic rock similar to the last few Black Keys' albums from the crew that Auerbach has assembled to help him produce records for artists like Dr. John, Ray LaMontagne, and Lana Del Rey," writes The Current's Jim McGuinn, and yet "there are deeper forays into both Otis Redding and Curtis Mayfield-influenced soul and Latin pop, with vintage synths and sax vying with overdriven guitars in the forefront of the mix ... Auerbach may have felt more liberated to indulge his musical fantasies than ever, but as with the Keys, this album is chock full of memorable, hooky jams. It's in the backbeat, in the choruses, in the horn stabs—we get the sense that even when Auerbach is freed to do anything he wants, he can't help but write songs that get stuck in your brain ..."
McGuinn concludes: "Yours, Dreamily, is a little weirder and experimental in places, but it never forgets Auerbach's strengths in The Black Keys as a guitarist, vocalist and songwriter who has created some of the most memorable rock 'n' roll of the 21st century, and that's a good thing."
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