Black Lips reveal new album and share single ‘Tippy Tongue’

Atlanta’s own Black Lips have revealed their new album, Season of the Peach, set for release on 19th September.

The record marks their first to be recorded in drummer Oakley Munson’s self-built Sound At Manor studio in the Catskills, a secluded creative retreat they’ve occupied since 2020.

Back in 1999, Cole Alexander and Jared Swilley formed the band in the Atlanta suburb of Dunwoody, joined later by guitarist Ben Eberbaugh. Their early years were the stuff of legend: get kicked out of school in the wake of Columbine; record 7‑inches on their own Die Slaughterhaus label; and absorb the horror of Eberbaugh’s untimely death in a car accident.

These moments shaped a band that thrived on chaos, from flaming guitars to impromptu nudity, and unruly live performances.

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They debuted with Black Lips! in 2003 and walked through various scenes: garage-punk wildness, MTV-level buzz with Good Bad Not Evil, polished Mark Ronson-produced rock on Arabia Mountain, and even country-tinged explorations on Sing in a World That’s Falling Apart. With each album: Underneath the Rainbow, Satan’s Graffiti or God’s Art?, Apocalypse Love; they reinvented themselves without losing their downtown swagger.

On Season of the Peach, recorded away from distractions, Oakley Munson says the band finally had the space to breathe: “The real outliers don’t say that they’re outliers… My favourite outliers in music are those people who are trying to be normal.”

Their first preview of this new era is the single ‘Tippy Tongue’, a lysergic burst of punk-tinged psychedelia full of skewed riffs and frantic energy. It’s a reminder of why Black Lips have always sounded best when tumbling off the map they built themselves.

Season of the Peach runs roughly 40 minutes long, opening with ‘The Illusion Part Two’ and closing with ‘The Illusion Part One’, a structural playfulness that mirrors their continual defiance of expectation. Sandwiched between are ‘Zulu Saints’, ‘Wild One’, ‘Tippy Tongue’ (track ten) and ‘Happy Place’, among others. It’s a sprawling trip that takes in grit, melody, surprise (or all three at once).

As autumn approaches, the band will begin rolling out tour dates to support the new material. With a decade behind them and who knows how many in front, Black Lips continue to write their own playbook.

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