Blog: PopMatters

On their sixth studio album, produced by Mark Ronson, the Black Lips demonstrate they can mature without growing up, and have made their best album to date. Here's a band that's gone through three lineup changes (and one founding band member's death) since their debut in 2000, have played loosely with the borders of the expansive garage punk genre, and still managed to get often rave reviews from listeners and critics. Part of their success might be their legendarily GG Allinesque live performances, which reflect back on and mediate the listener's recorded experience. More likely it is that they [...]