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. Black Lips’ Season of the Peach is available now through Fire Records, on a variety of formats.
Carlo Spiga plays Launeddas on ‘Zulu Saints’ – the first time the traditional Sardinian instrument appears on a rock album by a North American band. The feature was masterminded by the former director of the Nivola Museum (Luca Cheri) and the staff of the Here I Stay festival, which is where this collaboration first came to be.
Released alongside their new album Season Of The Peach, Bebop Armageddon (Detours & offcuts from Season Of The Peach) is a wild companion piece: a collection of demos, alternate versions, and sonic misadventures dragged from the edges of the Lips’ recent sessions and committed to wax for the super fans. Limited to 1000 copies on vinyl. If Season Of The Peach is the full-colour hallucination – part garage rock fantasia, part scorched-earth Americana – Bebop Armageddon is its ragged magnetic shadow. This is the chaos underneath the polish – the cuts that wouldn’t behave.
‘Season Of The Peach’ is out now and available to order in Limited Edition Solar Bleached Peach LP, Limited Edition Cream LP and CD. Released along with ‘Bebop Armageddon (Detours & Offcuts From Season Of The Peach)’ available in Limited Edition Black LP.
Live Dates
20 Sep: Eightball Club, Thessaloniki, Greece
22 Sep: 100 Club, London, UK
23 Sep: 100 Club, London, UK
25 Sep: Citadelle de Marseille, Marseille, France
21 Oct: The Sound, San Diego, CA, US w/ Viagra Boys
23 Oct: Fox Theater, Oakland, CA, US w/ Viagra Boys
24 Oct: Shrine Expo Hall, Los Angeles, CA, US w/ Viagra Boys
25 Oct: The Van Buren, Phoenix, AZ, US w/ Viagra Boys
27 Oct: The Union, Salt Lake City, UT, US w/ Viagra Boys
28 Oct: Mission Ballroom, Denver, CO, US w/ Viagra Boys
30 Oct: White Oak Music Hall, Houston, TX, US w/ Viagra Boys
31 Oct: Levitation, Austin, TX, US w/ Viagra Boys
01 Nov: House of Blues, Dallas, TX, US w/ Viagra Boys
03 Nov: The Ritz, Raleigh, NC, US w/ Viagra Boys
04 Nov: The Orange Peel, Asheville, NC, US w/ Viagra Boys
06 Nov: The Pageant, St Louis, MO, US w/ Viagra Boys
07 Nov: Marathon Music Works, Nashville, TN, US w/ Viagra Boys
08 Nov: The Eastern, Atlanta, GA, US w/ Viagra Boys
09 Nov: Bad Earl, Atlanta, GA, US
