The Black Keys have announced a new album called Ohio Players, due out April 5. In addition, the rock duo shared a new single entitled “Beautiful People (Stay High)”.

The album will feature a variety of guest stars, including Beck and Noel Gallagher.

“We had this epiphany: ‘We can call our friends to help us make music’,” Carney said of the collaborative project. “It’s funny because we both write songs with other people – Dan all the time [as a solo artist and producer], me when I’m producing a record. That’s what we do.”

“No matter who we work with, it never feels like we’re sacrificing who we are,” Auerbach added. “It only feels like it adds some special flavour.”

“We just expanded that palette with people we wanted to work with. We were there to support them and their ideas, to do whatever we could to see that moment flourish,” he continued. “But when it came time to finish the album, it was just Pat and me. We’d never worked harder to make a record. It’s never taken us this long to make an album. We took our time and did it right.”

Pre-save/order Ohio Players here.