Apocalypse Love Violet Vinyl
Merchant: Townsend Music
Merchant's Category: music
Ltd Indies Only Deluxe edition Violet Vinyl, Silver foiled sleeve, Lyric insert DL card.nbspThe Black Lips return with their 10th studio effortnbspApocalypse Love, scorched with their trademark menace, it cryogenically mutates all recognised musical bases it spins yarns about vintage Soviet synths, Benzedrine stupors, coup dersquo 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 lsquonrsquo roll.Singer and saxophonist Zumi Rosow muses, ldquoItrsquos a weird dance record, one that reflects the moment that the worldrsquos in right now...rdquoApocalypse Lovenbspis 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, cocktailshaken space age pop, Morricone reverberations and lofi outsider acousticpunk, with mariachi horns, theremins, drum machines and harmonies filtering through the infectious melodies.Standout number lsquoAmong The Dunesrsquo is an amorphous platformheeled anthem, a signature saxfuelled stomper filled with trippy swagger. While opener lsquoNo Raversquo proffers a hypnotic locked groove, with Cole Alexanderrsquos trademark snarl delivered over a sulphurous wall of distorted hedonism, a dystopian anthem for an apocalyptic manifesto. Meanwhile, the twisted exotica of lsquoWhips Of Hollyrsquo with its silver screen facade is like the soundtrack to a classic Theda Bara vampfest.As the band venture into their third decade,nbspApocalypse Lovenbspis proof that The Black Lips show no sign of slowing down...
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