Season Of The Peach CD

Black Lips return with a brandnew studio album, Season Of The Peach, a 40minute rock and roll odyssey, tripping through DIY genres where garage rock meets new wave pop, and disgruntled country shakes hands with epic western soundtracks. The 14track album captures the energy and spirit of early Black Lips while simultaneously applying new approaches to songwriting.The album is a musical merrygoround, a journey featuring roadweary tales from the underbelly of a lightsout America. Its bookended by The Illusion parts one and two a barroom quest for hope, fear, and hate, thwarted at each turn by a sense of resignation, you reach for the sky but its an illusion. Elsewhere, Wild One plays out like a Morricone romp through another day in Hell. A mantra for the hungover, a skincrawling lament in praise of the wild at heart.Tippy Tongue sees Black Lips take on 60s girl group soul, like The ShangriLas and Ronettes infiltrated by JayneWayne County, paying homage to Buddha Records. Meanwhile, Kassandra has a guitar sound scrubbed clean for a Sunday, chiming its way through everspiralling salvos like The Chocolate Watchband with Zappa on vocals. Zulu Saints is an upbeat country honk, a goodtime brush with bravado, peppered with Cole on an incredulous radio phonein show, looking for blackeyed peas and winning big on the slot machines.For the recording sessions they holed up in the bucolic surroundings of drummer Oakleys new Sound At Manor studio in the Catskills the first album recorded there since Oakley built the studio in 2020. In this idyllic setting, the band disconnected from city life and committed their music to analogue tape, part of their quest to embrace spontaneity and capture the energy of a live Black Lips show on record.