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"Underneath the Rainbow" is the seventh studio album by American garage rock band Black Lips, released on March 17, 2014 on the Vice Music label.
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 71, based on 26 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
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Atlanta's Black Lips were notorious in their early days for on-stage vomiting and nudity, although they have now quietly clocked up seven albums which fall somewhere between a celebration and pastiche of garagey rock. Opener Drive-By Buddy applies the electric twang of the 1966 Rolling Stones to a tune similar to the Monkees' Last Train to Clarksville. Smiling could have come straight from the Strokes' debut and elsewhere they effortlessly flick through a mythical mail-order catalogue of everything from 60s swamp to 70s glam. However, there's a sense that the Lips are trying to up their commercial game. After one album with Mark Ronson, Under the Rainbow is partly produced by Black Keys' Patrick Carney, who has brought much of the Keys' own postmodern electro thump. Waiting and Dandelion Dust sound arena-ready, and I Don't Wanna Go Home is the kind of song to blare out of a car. It remains to be seen whether the lack of an instantly recognisable Lips sound of their own may thwart their wilder ambitions, but they're not lacking in tunes. -- theguardian.com
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