BLACK LIPS - APOCALYPSE LOVE [LP]

1 No Rave 2 Love Has Won 3 Stolen Valor 4 Lost Angel 5 Whips of Holly 6 Apocalypse Love 7 Operation Angela 8 Crying on a Plane 9 Sharing My Cream 10 Among the Dunes 11 Tongue Tied 12 Antiaris Toxicaria 13 The Concubine The Black Lips return with their 10th studio effort Apocalypse Love, scorched with their trademark menace, it cryogenically mutates all recognized 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. 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. Transparent violet vinyl.