Black Lips / Arabia Mountain
Album: Arabia Mountain   Collection:General
Artist:Black Lips   Added:Jun 2011
Label:Vice Music Inc  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2011-11-20 Pull Date: 2012-01-22
Week Ending: Jan 22 Jan 15 Jan 8 Dec 18 Dec 11 Dec 4 Nov 27
Airplays: 2 1 3 1 3 3 4

Recent Airplay
1. Oct 05, 2023: down in the basement
New Direction
4. Oct 05, 2016: deep storage
Mr. Driver
2. May 05, 2022: deep storage
Mr. Driver
5. Jan 12, 2016: a strange pursuit
Mr. Driver
3. Dec 07, 2016: deep storage
Mr. Driver
6. Nov 29, 2015: Breakaway Bluff
Family Tree

Album Review
Andy S
Reviewed 2011-11-18
Psychedelic garage punk-pop. Weird, irreverent, and energetic as hell. Production really shines here, finding a lot of different takes on the lo-fi aesthetic without getting in its way. All tracks great, best entry point is 2. FCC 3(avoidable), 10?
-Andy

*1 - (2:36) bursts open w/ scratchy-ass sax part; fast dark and bluesy, shrieky chorus
**2 - (2:04) instantly catchy garage-pop about, yes, modern art; theremin part!
3 - avoidable FCC 'shit' in spoken outro - cut at 2:32; (2:49) busted little jangle-pop number about Spiderman and sex abuse, weird stuff
*4 - (2:03) groovy psychedelic garage rock, more sax
5 - (2:50) slowed-down psychey punk
6 - (2:19) mid rock n roll w/ effective early-60s treatment, great guitar
7 - (1:56) jagged, catchy pop
8 - (1:48) Vaselines-channeling campy punk-pop, whistling and all
9 - (2:53) sparse, weird arrangement of simple mid pop
10 - FCC? "giving head" (3:14) snarling psychedelic rock, striking acoustic guit part
*11 - (2:46) rousing sing-along jangle-pop
12 - (2:23) mid countrified garage rock
*13 - (2:30) upbeat, catchy, determined Ramones pop
*14 - (2:00) saxy swamp rock with arena chorus
15 - (2:46) jagged psych-pop, lots of drug talk
16 - (4:25) weird as hell slower psychedelic jam, lots of falsetto; slow fade-out and abrupt distorted vox in last seconds

Track Listing
1. Family Tree   9. Bone Marrow
2. Modern Art   10. The Lie
3. Spidey's Curse   11. Time
4. Mad Dog   12. Dumpster Dive
5. Mr. Driver   13. New Direction
6. Bicentennial Man   14. Noc-O-Homa
7. Go Out And Get It   15. Don't Mess Up My Baby
8. Raw Meat   16. You Keep On Running