Name: Apocalypse Love
Brand: Black Lips

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

FIRELP666X

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Colour

purple

Colour details

Violet

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Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: Yes

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

LP++ - With Silver Foiled Sleeve

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-10-14

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Cargo

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

809236166678

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1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / purple

FIRECD666

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Download code: No

Extended format: No

Capacity Wallet.

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809236166623

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

FIRELP666

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black

809236166616

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Black Lips

Genre GB

Garage / Surf / Trash

Label GB

Fire Records

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The Black Lips return with their 10th studio effort Apocalypse Love, scorched with their trademark menace, it cryogenically mutates all recognised musical bases; it spins yarns about vintage Soviet synths, Benzedrine stupors, coup de’ tats, stolen valor and certified destruction, all set against a black setting sun. Since the turn of the decade the band have transformed from austere country pioneers, into a set of Lynchian surrealists, hellbent on recalibrating the history of rock ‘n’ roll.

Singer and saxophonist Zumi Rosow muses, “It’s a weird dance record, one that reflects the moment that the world’s in right now...” 

Apocalypse Love is an album that emanates from a dive bar jukebox in the back of your mind; with a playlist that bends between tub thumping doom- glam, Plastic Ono singalongs, cocktail-shaken space age pop, Morricone reverberations and lo-fi outsider acoustic-punk, with mariachi horns, theremins, drum machines and harmonies filtering through the infectious melodies.

Stand-out number ‘Among The Dunes’ is an amorphous platform-heeled anthem, a signature sax-fuelled stomper filled with trippy swagger. While opener ‘No Rave’ proffers a hypnotic locked groove, with Cole Alexander’s trademark snarl delivered over a sulphurous wall of distorted hedonism, a dystopian anthem for an apocalyptic manifesto. Meanwhile, the twisted exotica of ‘Whips Of Holly’ with its silver screen façade is like the soundtrack to a classic Theda Bara vamp-fest. 

As the band venture into their third decade, Apocalypse Love is proof that The Black Lips show no sign of slowing down...