Black Lips record 'less muddy' new album with Mark Ronson

Black Lips have revealed that their forthcoming new album is going to be less "muddy".

Set to be the follow-up to 2009's '200 Million Thousand', the Atlanta band's fifth studio effort has been produced by Mark Ronson.

"[Ronson's] not changing a lot of the stuff we're already doing," bassist and vocalist Jared Swilley told Pitchfork.com. "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."

"He was very clear at the beginning that he didn't want to come in and do something crazy," he continued. "We definitely weren't going to have big synthesizers 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."

Going on to talk more about the sound of the album, Swilley admitted that it's not as "muddy" as their last studio effort.

"It definitely won't be as muddy as our last album, which we did ourselves in our warehouse," he explained. "Anything will sound less muddy than that. I think it will sound a lot better than the last album."

The group have yet to announce a release date for the as-yet untitled album.