The psychedelic odyssey of the Black Lips

The Black Lips return with a brand new studio album, “Season of the Peach”, released on September 19th to three years from “Apocalypse Love”. A 40 -minute rock and roll Odyssey, which crosses genres with a do -it -yourself attitude: The Rock Garage meets the Pop New Wave, and the melancholy country tightens its hand to epic western soundtracks. The fourteen track disc captures the energy and spirit of the first black Lips, while applying new approaches to writing. The new album was recorded in the drummer Oakley Munson’s study in the Catskills campaign, New York. In this idyllic scenario, the band has detached from the city’s life and recorded on analog ribbon, as part of a research aimed at embracing the spontaneity and capturing the energy of a live concert. Black Lips are real legends of the American independent scene and among the top formations of the revival garage of the past 25 years. The band is composed of the historical members Cole Alexander and Jared Swilley, as well as Zumi Rosow, Oakley Munson and Jeff Clarke.

“Season of the Peach” is their eleventh studio albumthe third for Fire Records, after having engraved for worship labels such as Bomp!, in The Red and Deputy Records. For the new chapter They say they have been inspired by outsiders, to all those artists and musicians who have always lived on the margins of society and success: “The real outsiders don’t say they are outsider – says Oakley – my favorite outsiders in music have always been those people who try to be normal”. Jared Swilley adds: “I have always had an affinity with the humanity that were naive in thinking of being able to break through in the mainstream, but they were not aware of what they were out of the ordinary“.

The music of “Season of the Peach” embraces precisely that tension: a sound that turns up just below the surface of pop melodies. The album is a musical carousel, a journey that tells tired stories of road coming from the slums of a America off. The new single “Tippy Tongue” sees the Black Lips try his hand with the soul of the Girl Band of the 60s such as Shangri-Las and Ronettes, a tribute to the Buddha Records. “Our message has always been simple – says Jared – we are just trying to rock and have fun“. Oakley adds:” We hope that there is still room for this in the world, however frankly it is “.