Arabia MountainV2 ****
Could this be the moment when likable Atlanta garage- punk goons Black Lips clean up their act and hit the jackpot? With Mark Ronson handling production duties, the band's sixth album now comes with the kind of flash piping and sleek lines that were never part of mix when Black Lips were thrashing their way through 200 Million Thousandand Good Bad Not Evil.That said, the spirit of the racket still remains the same, and the bulk of Arabia Mountain's 16 songs come rocketing at you with the sort of chippy nonchalance that has already endeared them to many. Ronson brings the party an attention to detail, which accentuates the band's songwriting smarts. With their gritty guitar lines and tough, thumping percussion, such knockout tracks as the mesmerising Go Out and Get It, Raw Meatand Spidey's Cursecome across as loose, infectious and still joyously off-message. See black-lips. com
Download tracks: Go Out and Get It, Raw Meat, Spidey's Curse
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