Those hoping for a quick follow-up to Turn Blue will likely get their wish in 2015.
The Black Keys told Billboard that they could be back in the studio as early as January, although drummer Patrick Carney made the possibility seem slim at first.
"I think if it were up to Dan and I, and we didn't have to consider the fact that we need to complete the full tour circuit, we'd probably be back in the studio in January," Carney said. "I think by the time this record came out we were ready to make another one. We started the band because we wanted to make albums. We wanted to make one record, and then we found out we had to tour. We didn't play our first show 'til after our first record was recorded, so it's always been about making records, and it's been a process in growing to become good performers."
Billboard points out that the duo will more than likely have time in January to hit the studio, however. Their tour wraps up Dec. 21, and the next European leg doesn't kick in until mid-February in Zurich.
What say you, Patrick?
"It's not like we have an idea of what direction we want to go in or anything," he said. "I'd like our next record to be ... I don't want to go somewhere too pre-planned. We always want to go somewhere different."
Right now, though, the band is busy figuring out its 48-date North American tour.
"There's two lighting designers and we let them do what they want, but we just told them we wanted to keep it classic," Carney says. "So it'll be a lot of really weird '70s par cans and stuff mixed with some moving screens and kind of super-contemporary video stuff. The main thing is we want to look cool but not be pretentious. And we didn't want any lasers."
