Black Lips: Arabia Mountain – review

(V2)There's a good reason garage rock thrives in compilation form: it all sounds more or less the same, so placing different voices and tones alongside each other is an easy way to introduce the variety single bands usually lack. Black Lips, from Atlanta, have an advantage in that all four members sing, and they've mastered more than one song template of the early 60s: they alternate between jangling folk rock (Spidey's Curse), frat rock with honking sax (Mad Dog), and frantic pop oddly reminis...

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