BLACK LIPS – “APOCALYPSE LOVE” (Released 14th October 2022)

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//Fire Records//

£23.99 – 1xLP, Limited Edition Indies Exclusive, Violet Coloured Vinyl in Silver Sleeve (plus DL Code)

£21.99 – 1xLP, Standard Edition Vinyl

The Black Lips return with their 10th studio effort ‘Apocalypse Love’, scorched with their trademark menace, it cryogenically mutates all recognised musical bases; it spins yarns about vintage Soviet synths, Benzedrine stupors, coup de’ tats, stolen valor and certified destruction, all set against a black setting sun. Since the turn of the decade the band have transformed from austere country pioneers, into a set of Lynchian surrealists, hellbent on recalibrating the history of rock ‘n’ roll. Singer and saxophonist Zumi Rosow muses, “It’s a weird dance record, one that reflects the moment that the world’s in right now…” ‘Apocalypse Love’ is an album that emanates from a dive bar jukebox in the back of your mind; with a playlist that bends between tub thumping doom-glam, Plastic Ono singalongs, cocktail-shaken space age pop, Morricone reverberations and lo-fi outsider acoustic-punk, with mariachi horns, theremins, drum machines and harmonies filtering through the infectious melodies. Stand-out number ‘Among The Dunes’ is an amorphous platform-heeled anthem, a signature sax-fuelled stomper filled with trippy swagger. While opener ‘No Rave’ proffers a hypnotic locked groove, with Cole Alexander’s trademark snarl delivered over a sulphurous wall of distorted hedonism, a dystopian anthem for an apocalyptic manifesto. Meanwhile, the twisted exotica of ‘Whips Of Holly’ with its silver screen façade is like the soundtrack to a classic Theda Bara vamp-fest.

Tracklisting:

1. No rave
2. Love has won
3. Stolen valor
4. Lost angel
5. Whips of holly
6. Apocalypse love
7. Operation angela
8. Crying on a plane
9. Sharing my cream
10. Among the dunes
11. Tongue tied
12. Antiaris toxicaria
13. The concubine