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Wikipedia article




"'Lo/Hi'" is a song by American rock band the Black Keys. It was released as the lead single from their ninth album, 'Let's Rock', on March 7, 2019. The song topped 'Billboard's Mainstream Rock, Adult Alternative Songs, Rock Airplay, and Alternative Songs charts in the United States simultaneously, making it the first song ever to do so.

Background and recording



The single was released on March 7, 2019, making it the first new material by the band in nearly five years. The next day, the song was featured by CBS as the theme for its promotion and coverage of the 2019 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament along with a video of the Black Keys performing it in an airplane hangar. On March 14, 2019, the band announced a North American tour co-headlining with Modest Mouse.



The song written by band members Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney and was recorded in late 2018 at Easy Eye Sound in Nashville, Tennessee.

Composition



David Paulson, writing for 'The Tennessean', described "Lo/Hi" as a "a groovy, gritty rock" and "soulful" track. Paulson compared the track's sound to the likes of British glam rock band T. Rex. In a positive review, Althea Legaspi and Ryan Reed, writing for 'Rolling Stone', called Lo/Hi, as a "scorching, psychedelic" track.

Joshua Bote of NPR described "Lo/Hi" as "rich" and "gospel-style", and said it was a return to their earlier Southern/blues style as opposed to the more funk orientated previous album, 'Turn Blue.' "The Akron, Ohio duo of Patrick Carney and Dan Auerbach built its name off chugging, crunchy Southern rock like the type dispensed on "Lo/Hi," so it's a welcome return from the gentler sounds that colored the group's last album, 2014's Turn Blue."

Jillian Mapes, writing for 'Pitchfork', compared the style of the song to ZZ Top, and offered a more mixed review of the song, praising the background vocals of Leisa Hans and Ashley Wilcoxson, which inject "a welcome texture", but concludes that the track is "wholly unsurprising".

Commercial performance



"Lo/Hi" was the Black Keys' first top-ten song on the Hot Rock Songs chart in nearly seven years, entering at number 34 in its first week before reaching number five the second week. The song collected 2.3 million streams and 8,000 digital downloads in its first week in the United States. The song made history by topping 'Billboard's Mainstream Rock, Adult Alternative Songs, Rock Airplay, and Alternative Songs charts simultaneously, making it the first time any song has reached number one on all four formats at once.

Personnel



'The Black Keys'

*Dan Auerbach lead vocals, guitars, bass, co-producer

*Patrick Carney drums, percussion, co-producer

'Additional personnel'

*Leisa Hans backing vocals

*Ashley Wilcoxson backing vocals

'Production'

*Tchad Blake mixing engineer

*Richard Dodd mastering engineer

*M. Allen Parker engineer

*Marc Whitmore engineer

Charts



Weekly charts



Year-end charts



References



Category:2019 singles

Category:2019 songs

Category:The Black Keys songs

Category:Songs written by Dan Auerbach

Category:Songs written by Patrick Carney

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