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“What Black Lips do so well is tease the horror out of wholesomeness and recast golden-age rock’n’roll in a strange, discomforting light.” Pitchfork
Almost predictably, Black Lips arrived in the noughties, reinventing primal garage rock that belched Crampsian excess before maturing along the way by strangling the conventions of punk, rock ‘n’ roll, country, psychedelia, hip hop and all points between. They are a force of nature when playing live; an experience like no other. And, at other times they make great records; hanging out with Lennon-Ono’s, Mark Ronson, Kesha and Fat White Family and, they have amassed a string of albums that throb with alien unease, that have attracted a faithful following from the wild side of town.
From the trashy mayhem of 2005’s ‘Let It Bloom’ (If Royal Trux had listened to the Troggs instead of the Rolling Stones, they might have recorded this album) to the breakthrough ‘Good Bad, Not Evil’ from 2007 (“American flower-punks Black Lips are purists when it comes to scuzz, a perfect tapestry of sordid pleasure” NME), Black Lips tore out the riffs and pushed hard at the recognised boundaries of music.
2009’s ‘200 Million Thousand’ was filled with unapologetic southern-fried twang, crunching through the gears in a haze of psychedelia; 2011’s Ronson-produced nugget ‘Arabia Mountain’ featured “hook after hook of infectious punk rock”, according to Paste Magazine, while that bastion of good taste Rolling Stone declared 2014’s ‘Under The Rainbow’ as “righteously ragged”.
The Sean Lennon-produced ‘Satan’s Graffiti, Or God’s Art’ from 2017 was distinctively unhinged, one of the rawest and most expansive albums in the band’s storied history, while ‘The Black Lips Sing In A World That’s Falling Apart’ headed to a different truck stop with a psycho howl thrown into the rubber room that nestled behind a disturbingly uneasy country veneer – it was and album that wrestled conventions and the state of the planet, the perfect launch point for last year’s phenomenal ‘Apocalypse Love’ which offered a veritable smorgasbord of sound for these troubled times; a buzzing light through a haze of global uncertainty.
Now recast as Lynchian surrealists, Black Lips are even more hellbent on recalibrating the history of 21st Century rock ‘n’ roll, mutating all recognized musical bases; as they spin yarns about Benzedrine stupors, coup de’ tats, stolen valor, certified destruction and the creative use of quicksand, all set against a blackened setting sun.
After months holed up writing and recording, the Black Lips are readying a new album for release this fall. Never ones to sit still for long, they’re hitting the road alongside the release, ready to bring their signature chaos and unhinged live energy to stages worldwide.
2025 Tour Dates
04 Sep: Eureka, Zwolle, Netherlands
05 Sep: Patronaat, Haarlem, Netherlands
06 Sep: Misty Fields Festival, Heusden Gem Asten, Netherlands
09 Sep: Bi Nuu, Berlin, Germany
10 Sep: VoxHall, Aarhus, Denmark
11 Sep: Slaktkyrkan, Stockholm, Sweden
12 Sep: John Dee, Oslo, Norway
13 Sep: Plan B (Warehouse), Malmö, Sweden
14 Sep: Leffingeleuren Festival, Ostend, Belgium
17 Sep: Blind, İstanbul, Turkey
18 Sep: Gazarte, Athens, Greece
20 Sep: Eightball Club, Thessaloniki, Greece
