2/23/2009

Black Lips - Starting Over

Whew, have you heard Black Lips' track 'Starting Over' from its new 200 Million Thousand release? Cool stuff - mid-60s arpeggio California picking, drunk Replacements-sounding lead vocals, great sustained backup vocals and backbeat.... love it.

Read the fine Milk Carton review of this new release. And the Boston Globe writes: "Of course, Black Lips aren't kids anymore; they made this album in a converted art gallery. And the screw-everything aesthetics barely disguise the fact that Black Lips have grown up into top-shelf songwriters. The bittersweet elegy "Starting Over"; the savage, cutting guitar work on the Doors-ian "Take My Heart"; the sheer surprise of "The Drop I Hold"; a woozy swerve into atmospherics - this is the work of a band deftly straddling wasted youth and serious craft."

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