Black Lips • Warish • Hood Rats

Atlanta’s enfants terribles have never made a secret of their penchant for country music, and on their new album Sing in a World that’s Falling Apart, released at the end of January, the Black Lips bring the southern twang with a vengeance, a bit like the Sadies, without strictly adhering to the genre. If the shadows of the Byrds, the Stones or Gram Parsons hover over several of the twelve tracks that make up this ninth album, the sense of urgency and the lo-fi garage rock that characterizes the majority of the Lips’ records remains. The Californian grungy trio Warish and the Montreal trash-punk combo Hood Rats will knock you out as curtain-raisers.

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