- Record Label: Easy Eye Sound/Warner Records
- Release Date: Aug 8, 2025
Buy Now
| Buy on |
|
- Critic score
- Publication
- By date
-
Aug 18, 2025A surprisingly vibrant, bright-side kind of album it is too. [Sep 2025, p.78]
-
Aug 8, 2025This album is dad rock for my generation in the best way. Having come of age alongside The Black Keys' early hits, I'm finding resonances in their work again.
-
Record CollectorAug 7, 2025It all makes for a mouth-watering amalgam of rock, country and soul that gets richer with every listen. [Sep 2025, p.103]
-
Aug 6, 2025The Black Keys’ raw edges are retained amid the Hendrix fuzz of Man On A Mission, while on the slick, Philly-shaped soul standout Make You Mine, the pair soar to new poppy heights. [Sep 2025, p.79]
-
Aug 14, 2025From here ["Man on a Mission"], the album meanders a bit, yet manages to maintain a solid presence. No Rain, No Flowers ends up their most mature effort to date.
-
Aug 7, 2025There aren't many surprises here, for better or worse, and it's a pleasant, straightforward collection of reliably rocking jams.
-
Aug 7, 2025While there’s comfort in these smooth and soulful blues-rock tunes, The Black Keys could really do with a touch more grit and raucous charm to stand it out amongst their discography. Either way, a solid effort regardless.
-
Aug 7, 2025Perhaps due to having A-list song-shapers on board, the album is seamlessly smooth and often a poppy far cry from the garage-grind they built their career on, but it’s not without heart.
-
UncutAug 6, 2025The results are inevitably polished - but, crucially, never overly so. [Sep 2025, p.28]
-
Aug 6, 2025The rapid rate of return that the band have embraced in recent years has sometimes resulted in less-than-airtight quality control, but at least, on this evidence, they’re having fun.
-
Aug 8, 2025No Rain, No Flowers turns out to be a muted effort.
-
Aug 6, 2025It’s all exceedingly pleasant, which is a bit of a curse. They’re songs with ingratiating hooks—tracks that would benefit from the ambient exposure of a grocery store or a doctor’s office, where they’d worm their way into the subconscious leaving no trace of entry. It’s so comfortable, in fact, that it hardly feels creative.