Dernières nouvelles des Black Lips en studio

On le sait, les Black Lips sont actuellement en studio où le producteur Mark Ronson se penche sur le successeur de 200 Million Thousand. Evidemment, une telle association n'est pas vraiment du goût des fans du groupe d'Atlanta, qui redoutent le pire – et vu les récents faits d'armes de Ronson, on peut les comprendre.

Mais dans une itnerview accordée à Pitchfork, le bassiste/chanteut Jared Swilley tente d'arrondir un peu les angles et donne quelques clés de lecture de cette nouvelle collaboration: "[Mark Ronson is] not changing a lot of the stuff we're already doing. [...] It was fun like that, because he was a fan of our music, and I like stuff that he's done. It seems like we wouldn't have a lot in common, but there's no radical departure from anything. […] He was very clear at the beginning that he didn't want to come in and do something crazy. We definitely weren't going to have big synthesisers or anything like that. He was really into the fuzz tone. We like to have really good-sounding fuzz, and he was big on helping us work on getting that."

Quant au son un brin crasseux des Black Lips, il semble bien que celui-ci va prendre un peu de plomb dans l'aide sur ce nouvel album, du moins si l'on en croit Swilley:  "It definitely won't be as muddy as our last album, which we did ourselves in our warehouse. Anything will sound less muddy than that. I think it will sound a lot better than the last album."

Alors les fans, rassurés ou pas?