Black Lips' latest album, Satan's Graffiti or God's Art?, opens with the 55-second "Overture: Sunday Mourning," featuring little more than a quiet drumbeat, subdued bass, a saxophone and a small chorus of children (or perhaps more likely, falsetto-affected adult voices) singing a simple "la-la-la" vocal line. It fades out just as quickly as it faded in, and it leaves the listener wholly unprepared for the thunderous opening of "Occidental Front," a mercilessly heavy riff that sounds as though it was pulled from Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi's private stash.…
Black Lips' latest album, Satan's Graffiti or God's Art?, opens with the 55-second "Overture: Sunday Mourning," featuring little more than a quiet drumbeat, subdued bass, a saxophone and a small chorus of children (or perhaps more likely, falsetto-affected adult voices) singing a simple "la-la-la" vocal line. It fades out just as quickly as it faded in, and it leaves the listener wholly unprepared for the thunderous opening of "Occidental Front," a mercilessly heavy riff that sounds as though it was pulled from Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi's private stash.…