In one of the more surprising pairings of the year, Atlanta’s potty mouthed punks The Black Lips have announced that super producer Mark Ronson is working on their new album with them. Bassist and vocalist Jared Swilley has revealed in an interview that Ronson is also helping to clean up their sound after admitting that their last effort, 2009’s self produced 200 Million Thousand was quite ‘muddy’. He says that 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 just interjected other ideas that we hadn’t really tried.” However fans need not worry about a radical departure from the band’s sound with the as yet untitled new album. “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.”
