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 months stretch from March 2010[1] to January 2011.[2]Lockett Pundt produced "Bicentennial Man" and "Go Out and Get It", while Mark Ronson was responsible for producing the rest.[3] The production by Ronson was conducted first in a Brooklyn studios, but completed in Black Lips' hometown of Atlanta due to time constraints.[4] The music video for the first single, "Go Out and Get It", was released on March 2. The music video for the second single, "Modern Art", was released on April 5.[5] "New Direction" was leaked to the public by Rolling Stone on May 16.[6] The music video for "Raw Meat" was chosen by Pitchfork in The Top Music Videos of 2011.[7]
Critical reception
This section needs expansion with: a summary of various reviews. You can help by adding to it. (May 2012)
Arabia Mountain was met with "generally favorable" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 80 based on 25 reviews.[9] At AnyDecentMusic?, the release was given a 7.7 out of 10 based on a critical consensus of 24 reviews[8]