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The Black Lips from Atlanta (Georgia), fronted by vocalist Cole Alexander,
debuted with the
amateurish The Black Lips (2003), still featuring original guitarist
Ben Eberbaugh, a collection of garage rave-ups in the vein of
pornographic punk-rock, the Stooges and Captain Beefheart.
Crude atonality and an amazing bad taste persevered on
We Did Not Know the Forest Spirit Made the Flowers Grow (2004),
and further devastated Let It Bloom (In The Red, 2005), that ended up sounding
ferocious and sinister where the first albums sounded playful and merely
outrageous.
The brief 16 songs make the point without a lot of subtlety.
Sea Of Blasphemy is a
perfect imitation of the sound of the early garage-bands, replete with
barbed-wire guitars and defiant vocals (with the addition of free-form noise).
The supersonic frenzy of Can't Dance evokes precisely the "dance crazes"
of the early Sixites, and the bluesy Boomerang is reminiscent of
early Rolling Stones.
Unfortunately it's mostly downhill from there, with the exception of the
effervescent Gung Ho and Take Me Home.
The band captures the rebellious zeitgeist of the era in the
agonizing Gentle Violence and the polka-esque singalong Punk Slime.
All of them recorded as primitive as possible.
After the live Los Valientes del Mundo Nuevo (Vice, 2007), the band
partially retreated from the abyss of musical horror with the better played
Good Bad Not Evil (2007), that even featured the catchy
Veni Vidi Vici (leaving the terrifying Katrina and Slime and Oxygen in the background).
besides the country-music send-up How Do You Tell A Child That Someone Has Died.
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