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May 10, 2017Satan’s Graffiti or God’s art? shows that while other bands may find themselves naturally winding down when several albums in, Black Lips are still going from strength to strength.
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May 11, 2017A mélange of harum scarum garage-psych, unabashed homage and carefully-crafted pop reprieve, it finds Black Lips at their most daring, exploratory and downright vital.
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May 3, 2017This is actually a great record, because Black Lips are the sort of band that can pull off preening and rambunctious in the same album (sometimes even in the same song).
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May 3, 2017This may be the finest concoction yet--one that finds them in their true habitat like a mongoose on a snake farm.
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MojoApr 26, 2017Their ninth studio album is simultaneously more cosmic and conceptual than earlier efforts. [Jun 2017, p.89]
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May 5, 2017Even with its lumbering back end, this is a return to form for Black Lips, who’ve once again found a middle ground between the manic, abrasive rock of their earliest records and the more clean-cut punk of 2014’s Underneath The Rainbow.
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MagnetJun 27, 2017Even when Black Lips operate more on the obnoxious side of the coin--"We Know" grinds to intolerable, screeching halts in an attempt to prove themselves both edgy and improved--the fuzzy, surf swing of tracks such as "Occidental Front" prove the band can be powerfully charming. [No. 143, p.55]
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UncutApr 26, 2017Black Lips have found their way to middle age through a careful balance of punk attitude and rock'n'roll classicism. Satan's Graffiti Or God's Art? keeps that dissolute edge intact. [Jun 2017, p.24]
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Apr 26, 2017While Wayne, Lucid Nightmare and the 50s mirrorball romance of Crystal Night maintain the crisp retro spark of old, the rest of this somewhat inspired 55-minute mess smacks of the Fat Whites’ sticky-trousered narco-country.
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May 9, 2017Satan’s graffiti or God’s art? tries to make a masterpiece from spray paint, but for every cool mural, there’s a splatter of obtrusive tags.
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Jun 5, 2017They bounce between genres with screwball zeal, but the anti-concept loopiness can be weird fun.
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May 11, 2017Big riffs and a honking saxophone pile into swampy blues, moonshine country, rollicking rockabilly, glam racket and sometimes baffling cacophonies--but whenever things get too chaotic, their sharp songwriting pulls them back from the brink.
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Q MagazineMay 9, 2017Other artists might have engaged in some sort of artistic progression by now, but this is what Black Lips do. They bend to no one's will but their own. [Jul 2017, p.104]
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May 9, 2017Creating a 19-track album out of Black Lips’ brand of messy psychedelic punk was always going to be a huge ask. And they have nearly pulled it off.
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May 9, 2017The Black Lips still sound like the rulers of an unwholesome party underworld on Satan's Graffiti or God's Art?, but it's hard not to feel like both hosts and guests are running out of steam.
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Apr 26, 2017It’s as capricious and confusing as it sounds, yet the overall result is one of surprising cohesion.