It's D day for the Black lips.
This garage rock formation, from Atlanta, define themself as a "Flower punk" band. Their sound is near from the kinks at their begining: bad recordings, bad signing and tuning, but this is their style, and we can't afford that they have, despite all of this, develop melodic qualities. This is a brut and vintage song remembering the "roots" and the essence of Garage rock. They have a terrible energy on the stage by oftenly playing naked, peeing, spiting, or puking on people... 2005 the begining, "let it bloom", a real punch in rock n roll world. 2007: they have been declared:" the hardest working band at the South by Southwest festival" in Austin, Texas, after having played 12 times in 3 days. 2007: Pitchfork rank their album "good bad not evil", as one of the best album of the year. 2009: release of "200 million", a flashback to the roots of the band, with minimalist, black pop rock song.
Today; release of Arabia Mountain, first listening, this album is less clean and perfectly recorded, contrary to the others, thanks to Mark Ronson... producer of: Robbie Williams, Lily Allen, Amy winehouse, Christina Aguilera... whatever... We could think that they sold their souls for this album, but after a few listening I found back the "black lips" i used to listen, okay okay the sound is less gross, and vintage, but the spirit is still Alive with surprising garage melodies and terrible singing. Good listening!
For the melancholics: video of "it's alright"
