Starting Over

“Starting Over,” Black Lips: Begins with some 12-string Searchers jangle that is intentionally garagy. The voice is some off-script drunkin’ karaoke warble about how he’s gotta keep running and drink some beer and blow out his mind, etc. All of which wouldn’t signify that much if it wasn’t for the crowd counterpointing dude’s sloppy lament with soothing “ahhhs” and beseeching “starting overs.” The chorus transforms the inarticulate pain towards something like a catharsis. The lead ends with some wounded animal cries of “allllriight” a la Darkness Springsteen. It’s all so physically satisfying I’m willing to imagine drunk guy might even give up the hooch. Or not.