The Black Keys might be best known for being a garage-rock duo, but over time the twosome of Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney have ventured far beyond that style.

The Ohio natives have dabbled in psychedelic rock (2014’s “Turn Blue”), recorded a platter full of hill country blues songs (2021’s “Delta Kream”) and collaborated on a hip-hip project with Roc-a-Fella Records co-founder Damon Dash, Mos Def, Q-Tip and Ludacris (on 2009’s “BlakRoc”). The band’s next album, “No Rain, No Flowers,” is set to drop Aug. 8, and it finds The Black Keys drawing inspiration from its record hangs — dance parties where Auerbach and Carney spin rare vinyl 45s for attendees.

The Black Keys will be in Colorado Springs on Sunday to perform at Ford Amphitheater.

As has been the case in recent years, collaboration was a key component throughout “No Rain, No Flowers.” In this case, those partnerships came via songwriters Rick Nowels (Stevie Nicks/Adele) and Scott Storch (The Roots/Snoop Dogg/The Game). It was an effort to keep the creative process interesting.

“We wrote about half (of) this album with Rick Nowels, who is a guy we became acquainted with through Dan’s work with Lana Del Rey (on her 2014 album “Ultraviolence”),” Carney said. “We’d never actually gotten in the studio before with a ‘songwriter.’ We’ve worked with other musicians and we were curious to see what Rick was all about.”

He added: “Scott was someone we admired through watching a lot of his posts on Instagram and YouTube. I had a hunch that he’s got to be some kind of killer musician, and when we finally got him in the studio we found out he might be the best musician we’ve ever played with.

“He’s operating on a whole different level musically. Being in the studio with Scott and Rick was the first time we were writing with keyboard players. One of the fun things was trying to figure out how to bridge the gap between guitar and keyboard. I think that’s something that’s all over the album and kind of ties it together.”

With 13 studio albums to its credit, The Black Keys is gearing up for a U.S. tour, only the band’s third such outing since 2014. Given the depth of the band’s catalog, Carney is relishing the challenge of crafting the show.

“We’re making a conscious effort to pull some deeper stuff out of the catalog that we haven’t played in a while,” he said. “There are a lot of songs that we definitely have to play pretty much every night, so we will be playing those. Plus, having 11 gold singles — that’s over half a set right there if you’re going to play everything.”