BLACK LIPS

Black Lips’ new album Season Of The Peach is a 40-minute 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 14-track album captures the energy and spirit of early Black Lips while simultaneously applying new approaches to songwriting.

Forming in 1999, their self-titled debut album was released in 2003, following which their fan base grew with the release of 2004’s We Did Not Know The Spirit Made The Flowers Grow. The band’s 2007 effort, Good Bad Not Evil, propelled them onto TV screens on both sides of the Atlantic. Line ups shuffled, stages were invaded, songs were mooted for TV shows and Mark Ronson, Sean Lennon and Black Keys’ Patrick Carney all put in a shift in the producer’s chair as touring momentum increased. In 2013 they added secret weapon Zumi Rosow who was later joined by Oakley Munson on drums and guitarist Jeff Clarke.

For the recording sessions of Season Of The Peach, they holed up in the bucolic surroundings of Munson’s 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.