Cargo Records

Black Lips (Clear Vinyl)

A very limited pressing of 500 on clear vinyl!! "The Black Lips' debut is a grimy record, something like Creedence crossed with gauze-wrapped early-'90s garagists the Mummies. The Southeast Performer remarked that "Can't Get Me Down"..."one of those grubby, loose, harmonica blues songs about some such "little woman"..."has the production value of two boom boxes." (It also ends with depraved, cute gibberish, something like "JAY CAIN TEE TEE CAW CAW.")

The key to the Lips, though, isn't just their thrown-together garage-band production values (actually, they hail from no suburban garage, but a post-high-school domicile and DIY venue near Georgia Tech named Die Slaughterhaus), or Alexander's commanding, sometimes mournful, sometimes exuberant garble. There's also the urgency, beyond posturing, one hears through the album's 13 tracks, suggesting the Lips only give a fuck about the basics: namely, being in a fuck-all band. All previous versions are now deleted.

Track Listing

1. Throw It Away
2. Freakout
3. Ain't No Deal
4. Stone Cold
5. I've Got A Knife
6. Down And Out
7. Steps
8. Fad
9. Sweet Kin
10. Crazy Girl
11. Everybody Loves A Cocksucker
12. Can't Bring Me Down
13. Say Hello To The Postman