Atlanta rock band Black Lips have announced their seventh studio album Underneath the Rainbow. According to Rolling Stone, the 12-song effort was recorded this year both in New York with the Budos Band's Tommy Brenneck and in Nashville with the Black Keys' Patrick Carney.
Bassist Jared Swilley told them that this time around, the album was influenced by pretty traditional roots music and that it will have more of a southern rock and country vibe as well. The article mentions "Boys in the Woods" as an ode to Lynyrd Skynyrd, their Atlanta roots and "doing bathtub drugs and drinking bathtub gin." Another notable track is "Smiling," which tells of Swilley's brief prison stay last year.
"[That song is] about how going to jail sucks, because the florescent lights make it hard to sleep, and you have to share five cigarettes with ten other guys all ducking in a corner smoking cigarettes," he told them. "[And] how you have to call your mom to bail you out. I wanted to write a song about Gucci Mane but I ended up writing it about myself."
Underneath the Rainbow is due out March 18. Check out the tracklist below and let us know what you think in the comments section!
Underneath the Rainbow Tracklist:
1. "Drive By Buddy"
2. "Smiling"
3. "Make You Mine"
4. "Funny"
5. "Dorner Party"
6. "Justice After All"
7. "Boys in the Wood"
8. "Waiting"
9. "Do the Vibrate"
10. "I Don't Wanna Go Home"
11. "Dandelion Dust"
12. "Dog Years"
