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Mar 12, 2014Backed by Budos Band and Dap Kings' Tom Brenneck, and produced by the Black Keys' Patrick Carney, the band somehow remains degenerately disheveled and brilliantly bombastic in a way that belies their tightness.
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Mar 12, 2014Within what the Black Lips claim is the their most rootsy release are sly, glam-tastic details dished out with a sometimes laggard energy. It makes for an album that digs in deeper with each listen, like cool new boots trudging through mud.
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Mar 17, 2014Underneath the Rainbow clocks in at 12 tracks, unlike Arabia Mountain’s punishing 16. Leaner does mean meaner, and with the Black lips, mean is best.
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Mar 18, 2014Underneath the Rainbow shoots for crossover appeal without compromising their tried-and-true aesthetic.
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MagnetMar 12, 2014It's bold, colorful palette is wider and more enveloping than in the past. [No. 107, p.53]
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Mar 12, 2014Underneath The Rainbow is more of an assault on the ears than anything else, although that’s mostly in a good way, as the band never lose sight of the style that first brought them success.
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Mar 17, 2014Black Lips’ spirit is as bright and brilliant as ever.
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Mar 18, 2014Underneath the Rainbow finds the band straying from that place. Black Lips were probably the last band you’d expect to sound complacent, and now it’s becoming difficult to remember what made them so special in the first place.
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Mar 20, 2014They recorded in Nashville with the Black Keys’ Patrick Carney on seven of Underneath the Rainbow’s 12 tracks isn’t something to dismiss out of hand. But another producer is responsible for the album’s best songs.
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Q MagazineMar 14, 2014The Black Lips are on consistent and disreputable form throughout. [Apr 2014, p.104]
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Mar 18, 2014By now the Lips have made peace with modern-day production techniques, but the 12 licketysplit songs on their seventh studio album still feel righteously ragged, if not downright drunk.
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Mar 18, 2014Rainbow works best when it strikes the perfect balance between bratty abandon and silly sensitivity.
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Mar 13, 2014It remains to be seen whether the lack of an instantly recognisable Lips sound of their own may thwart their wilder ambitions, but they're not lacking in tunes.
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Mar 21, 2014The boisterous new record is filled with plenty of raucous glimpses of what has beat at the unsteady creative heart of this notoriously dubious band for over 15 unpredictable years.
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UncutMar 12, 2014Whether it's the ramalama of "Dorner Party," sleazy synth jam "Funny" or the brooding "Do The Vibrate," revved up and slightly ramshackle is how BL troll across this superior barroom set. [Apr 2014, p.69]
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Under The RadarMar 12, 2014Rainbow isn't the band's best record--that would be 2007's near-perfect Good Bad Evil--but it is still a damn good one, immensely listenable and accessible, while just left enough of center to keep things interesting. [Feb/Mar 2014, p.70]
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