"Arabia Mountain" is the sixth studio album by American garage punk band Black Lips, released on June 7, 2011. The album was written and recorded over a nine-month stretch from March 2010 to January 2011. Lockett Pundt produced "Bicentennial Man" and "Go Out and Get It", while Mark Ronson was responsible for producing the rest. The production by Ronson was conducted first in a Brooklyn studios, but completed in Black Lips' hometown of Atlanta due to time constraints. The music video for the first single, "Go Out and Get It", was released on March 2. The music video for the Read more on Last.fm.
To pretty strong effect, Arabia Mountain seems to capture both the essence of the Lips’ wildness and bizarro-pop appeal. Each song feels like a boyishly direct send-up of a particular band or sound – the Ramones on “Raw Meat,” Exile-era Stones on “Dumpster Dive,” 60’s AM Gold on “Bicentennial Man,” country-western Del-Tones on “Time” – but it’s all so distinctively them. On the whole, it usually overstays its welcome (because you just can’t keep partying as long as they want to, I presume), and it tends to feel uneven, but each cut on its own is a stellar party-timin’ groove. Having seen the band live only once at a rainy midday set in my alma mater’s courtyard (wherein they crowdsurfed a 6′ table, frisbee-tossed pizzas, and sprayed their complimentary Red Bulls on a totally unsuspecting school-day crowd), I’d say that’s a just-right analogy for this introduction to their largest audience yet. Listen to this record unless you hate fun.