The Black Keys Help Black Lips On New Album

One of the world's most beloved only-just-underground garage rock groups, Atlanta's Black Lips, have confirmed a few more details about their new record including the news that The Black Keys' drummer Patrick Carney will be helping the band out with production for part of the LP.

A recent chat with Billboard confirmed the news, with the group's bassist Jarred Swilley saying the record will be made up of “club bangers and southern rock anthems” and all but confirming that Deerhunter's Bradford Cox will make it onto the record in one way or another once again.

2004's Notown Blues featuring Cox on drums.

As well as being one half of one of the biggest rock bands around right now, Carney has recently produced albums for Canadian roots rockers The Sheepdogs (their 2012 self-titled release) and the latest record from husband-and-wife indie pop group Tennis (Young & Old, also released last year).

After working with Mark Ronson on the majority of their excellent Arabia Mountain LP of 2011, there are few names they could have enlisted that would shock Black Lips fans for this next release.

The first sessions of the record are complete, having been finished in a New York studio recently, but the band will now travel to Nashville where they will meet up with Carney and work on more material.

The band have recently returned from a tour of the Middle East, much of which has been filmed for a forthcoming documentary. Now that tour has been completed successfully, the band will resume their goal to play on every continent on the planet. Now they need to make it to Antarctica.

"We're working real hard to get to Antarctica right now," Swilley says. "There is a research center there and it has a pub. There are 1,500 to 1,600 contractors and scientists working there, so we just have to get the money to get down there."