NEW RELEASE: THE FINAL EP FROM THE BLACKS

Normally I long for a band I love to drop their next release, but it's with some sadness that I rally around this one by THE BLACKS. 'Tiger Songs' (Tricycle Records), which turns out to be the swan songs by The Blacks, is the perfect reflection of life and how bittersweet it can be; for even in something as horrid as a world without the Blacks, they still leave behind this record of beauty and ugliness and fun and mischief. Luisa howls on 'Gravitas' and the track pulses like a strobe light in a dark room. Long live The Blacks!!