BLACK LIPS - Sing In A World That's Falling Apart LP cold wave The sound of this album

The sound of this album is completely different to the upbeat

articulation and vibration

Side A starts in the mire of an electronic sunset with Quintron at the helm of the Weather Warlock synth

The beef goes on between the pair but what can't be argued is that this is another essential part of the Sonic Boom story

The result is fourteen lo-fi

BLACK LIPS - Sing In A World That's Falling Apart LP cold wave The sound of this albumLatest LP finds The Blacks Lips departing from their steady brand of grungy guitar rock theyve made a country record. Sort of. We still have all the basic tropes of a typical Black Lips record: oft garbled vocals, slightly sloppy performances, some darkly funny (or funnily dark) lyrics and that ever present attitude of go fuck yourself if you dont like it. But well give em credit they do a pretty good job of capturing western swing rhythms, honky