Mark Ronson is on production duties for Black Lips‘ upcoming sixth album Arabia Mountain (Lockett Pundt of Deerhunter does two tracks). So I expect this elusive band to make a lot more sense to a lot more people soon. Case in point: the two minute pop thrill of ‘Modern Art’. As Aoife Right Click Radio pointed out to me today, it sounds ripe for an ad soundtrack. Super catchy.
Download: Black Lips – Modern Art
Black Lips play The Button Factory, Dublin (€20), Cypress Avenue, Cork (€15) and Roisin Dubh Galway (€18) on May 25th, 26th and 27th respectively. Tickets are €20 plus fees.
The videos for ‘Modern Art’ and the Pundt-produced ‘Go Out and Get It! are below.
Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005 . He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Cara Magazine, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, founder of Lumo Club, club promoter, event curator and producer of gigs, listening parties & events in Dublin.
It’s about time we had a Hives cover band.
Harsh dude. Harsh.
It’ll be a Miller Lite ad,with a bunch of hipsters going backwards from the end of a house party to a dive bar where they agree to have the house party in the first place by clinking their Miller beer bottles together.