Let It Bloom (CD) ~ Black Lips (Artist) Cover Art

Let It Bloom (CD)

By: Black Lips (Artist)

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Black Lips Artist Snapshot:

In the wake of the Strokes and the White Stripes, seemingly any band with a fuzzed-out guitar lick and a four/four beat was labeled as garage, yet few young bands of the era indulged as genuinely in wild, unhinged throwback rock & roll as Atlanta's Black Lips. The band members were still in their teens when they came together in 2000, immediately finding a strong fanbase within the underground garage-punk scene thanks to tough, soulful songs and a notoriously outrageous live show. In 2006, the Lips made the jump to the big-indie label Vice Records with the release of the live album LOS VALIENTOS DEL MUNDO NUEVO, and the studio full-length GOOD BAD NOT EVIL followed in 2007.

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DISC 1 for Let It Bloom (CD) Album By Black Lips (Artist)
1   Sea Of Blasphemy
2   Can't Dance
3   Boomerang
4   Hippie Hippie Hoorah
5   Not A Problem
6   Gung Ho
7   Everybody's Doin' It
8   Feeling Gay
9   Take Me Home
10   Gentle Violence
11   She's Gone
12   Fairy Stories
13   Dirty Hand
14   Workin'
15   Punk Slime
16   Empassant
17   Do You Really Wanna Hold My Dirty Hand  
 

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Uncut (p.90) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]heir music twitches with an engaging, wired vigour."

Title Note

Black Lips: Ian St. Pe, Cole Younger (vocals, guitar); Jered Swilley (vocals, bass guitar); Joe Bradley (vocals, drums).

Additional personnel: Vanessa Gonzalez (accordion, piano); Simon Shrine (trumpet).

Recording information: Moon Studios, Berlin, Germany; The Distillery Studio, Costa Mesa, California (2005).

Genuine danger in music is all too rare. And although the members of Black Lips themselves aren't too frightful, their tunes--and the dark, anarchic vibes they generate--do intimidate. The title LET IT BLOOM, from a band that calls their music "flower punk," might imply a gentle crossover record, like John Denver covering now-mainstreamed punk standards, but the Atlanta band's sloppy brew is too rambunctious and wobbly too be pinned down. Electric blues, country, garage, and punk are all here.

The album highlight, "Hippie Hippie Hooray," channels both "House of the Rising Sun" and "Paint It Black" as Cole Alexander laughs through a thick fog of reverb over snake-charmer guitars, tambourine, and a random series of false endings. "Boomerang" is blues jangle a la SORRY MA-era Replacements, while "Punk Slime" holds true to its name. Black Lips are one of the few bands that can honestly claim to be keeping the spirit of rock & roll alive, and LET IT BLOOM is their best single slab of evidence to that effect.

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