Black Lips' albums and singles to-date have been exercises in re-creating the fuzzed-out no-fi of the 60s' garage-punk progenitors like The Sonics, The Seeds and The Monks, culminating in this year's live document, Los Valientes Del Mondo Nuevo. This new single, the first from their forthcoming fourth studio album is a progression from that sound without losing any of the raw, giddy thrills that those records had in spades.
'Cold Hands' is a surf-punk rumble that sounds like it should be soundtracking a knife-fight between Dean and Brando and evokes, amongst other things, pomade, leather and gasoline. It's also catchy-as-hell and not a million miles removed from the punk-pop bands you hear on the radio everyday, only, like, tons better and a lot more dangerous. What are Black Lips rebelling against? I'm tempted to say, "What have you got?", but it's clearly mediocrity that they're striving to save us from. It's about time that we learned to love the kids from the wrong side of the tracks again.
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