★★★★★
BLACK LIPS -- Underneath the Rainbow
Album:
Underneath the Rainbow
Artist: Black Lips
Label: Vice
Release Date: March 18, 2014
www.vicerecords.com
BY SCOTT RECKER
Even with almost a decade and a half under their belt, Black Lips still have that youthful glint in their eyes, continuing to shell out high-energy gut-punches about the seedy corners of life...
- blurtonline.com
2014-04-19
★★★★★
In 2007, down a side road near Covent Garden, I saw Black Lips play in the old Rough Trade shop. The band were launching their 'It's A Problem, No, It's Not A Problem To Me!' single, and they still very much had the rough and ready, scrappy style of their earliest days despite the more polished Good Bad Not Evil being released a week or two later...
- thequietus.com
2014-04-22
★★★★★
The producer's role in pop isas potent now as it was in the 60s, but in rock music - unmistakeably what The Black Lips make - it's a little more ambiguous.
- recordcollectormag.com
2014-03-27
★★★★★
Building on the increasingly mature (if that's the right word) and melodic (again, a questionable term) work that made up Arabia Mountain, their last album, Black Lips have released another varied record of brilliant garage rock jams, with a couple of new tricks.
The album is a less scattered affair than their last, which felt like a collection of really great singles...
- www.punknews.org
2014-03-27
★★★★★
Tweet T-Birds, Titties and Jail Time The Black Lips have been known to cause a ruckus. The Atlanta garage-rock band has puked and spit on fewer people as the years go by, but that doesn't mean their rough edges are gone. For their seventh studio album, Underneath the Rainbow, longtime bandmates Cole Alexander, Joe Bradley, Ian St...
- www.mxdwn.com
2014-03-24
★★★★★
Turns out these Atlanta garage-punks weren't totally joking when they threatened to go "southern rock." Under the Rainbow may be devoid of soaring twin guitar solos, soulful free-as-a-bird vocals and boogie shuffles. But what else would you call "Boys in the Wood," a bluesy slog with the deliberate pacing of boots through swamp-mud, an atmosphere of unbreathable humidity, and a drawling chorus of indolent menace...
- wonderingsound.com
2014-03-21
★★★★★
Black Lips defined themselves early on with riveting music that breathed new life into garage rock. So let's just get this out of the way: 2005's Let It Bloom is still their best album. That's not meant as a slight to their later work, but rather an acknowledgement of just how thrilling the early, ragged material could be: the way they screamed just after the intro of "Not a Problem"; their hypnotizing, fluid cover of Jacques Dutronc's "Hippie, Hippie, Hoorah"; the swooning, filth-caked ballad...
- pitchfork.com
2014-03-20
★★★★★
Turns out these Atlanta garage-punks weren't totally joking when they threatened to go "southern rock." Under the Rainbow may be devoid of soaring twin guitar solos, soulful free-as-a-bird vocals and boogie shuffles. But what else would you call "Boys in the Wood," a bluesy slog with the deliberate pacing of boots through swamp-mud, an atmosphere of unbreathable humidity, and a drawling chorus of indolent menace...
- www.wonderingsound.com
2014-04-09
★★★★★
Ramshackle seems to be a pretty good adjective for the rock music released this year. There was the five seconds till the end of the world insanity of Silver Mt. Zion's Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything, the Men's love letter to classic rock in Tomorrow's Hits and now, the most off the rails of them all, Black Lips' Underneath the Rainbow. The Atlanta-based lunatics let us in on a whole hell of a lot of debauchery that they've undertaken...
- www.popmatters.com
2014-03-18
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