Apocalypse Love, By: Black Lips - Model Number: FIRECD666

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The Black Lips return with their 10th studio effort ˜Apocalypse Love™, scorched with their trademark menace, it cryogenically mutates all recognised musical bases; 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, œIt™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 fa§ade is like the soundtrack to a classic Theda Bara vamp-fest. As the band venture into their third decade, ˜Apocalypse Love™ is proof that The Black Lips show no
sign of slowing down¦ œA wonderful new chapter¦ The world may be on fire, but at least we have Black Lips. The Line Of Best Fit // œSimply masters in their field NME //

Tracks

CD

No Rave
Love Has Won
Stolen Valor
Lost Angel
Whips of Holly
Apocalypse Love
Operation Angela.
Crying on A Plane
Sharing My Cream
Among The Dunes
Tongue Tied
Antiaris Toxicaria
The Concubine

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