Black Lips, ‘Arabia Mountain’ - First Listen

Sometimes, there’s a very good reason for fixing something that ain’t broke: you can make it a lot better. Some fans of Black Lips’ unreconstructed weirdo-garage racket might have been understandably freaked to learn they were working with Warhol-haired pop mixologist Mark Ronson. The band had never even worked with any producer before; surely to pair them up with one such a master of unit-shifting sheen and impeccable perky bounce would fuck with the magic? Here though, we were more hoi...

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