Black Lips announce first album in three years, Season Of The Peach

For the recording sessions of Season Of The Peach, they holed up in the bucolic surroundings of drummer Oakley’s new Sound At Manor studio in the Catskills (the first album recorded there since Oakley built the studio in 2020). In this idyllic setting, the band disconnected from city life and committed their music to analogue tape, part of their quest to embrace spontaneity and capture the energy of a live Black Lips show on record.

They also looked towards the fringes of outsider music for inspiration. “The real outliers don’t say that they’re outliers,” says Oakley. “My favourite outliers in music are those people who are trying to be normal.” Jared adds, “I always had an affinity for people who were naive in thinking they could crack into the mainstream, but weren’t aware of how off-kilter they were.”

Tracklist:

1. The Illusion Part Two
2. Zulu Saints
3. Sx Sx Sx Men
4. Wild One
5. So Far Gone
6. Judas Pig
7. Kassandra
8. Baptism In The Death House
9. Until We Meet Again
10. Tippy Tongue
11. Happy Place
12. Prick
13. Hatman
14. The Illusion Part One