In 2002, after signing and un-signing with Epic Records, the band found themselves on the soundtrack of Sony Pictures' Spider-Man, opening another chapter for Black Lab. Contributions to soundtracks included: Can’t Hardly Wait, Varsity Blues, Permanent Midnight, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Paul Durham produced the band's second album, ‘See the Sun’ with new guitarist/programmer Andy Ellis. Starting from scratch and free from a major label.
Black Lab’s Passion
Leaves a Trace (2007), also a
self-produced album that attracted national media attention through the
single-day, world-wide viral campaign called "Bum Rush the
charts," their song ‘Mine Again’
was promoted through podcasting, blogs and email. The song peaked at #11 on the U.S. iTunes
rock chart and broke the top 100 in fifteen other countries (#2 in
Holland!).
In 2010, Black Lab
released its fourth proper album, Two Strangers, featuring twelve new songs
that swing from cold- wave desperation to indie-pop celebration to post-grunge
thrust.
The album ‘A Raven Has
My Heart’ was written from desperation to do
something new, to break out of the familiar patterns we had developed, to sing
in a more neutral precise way, to write more honestly, and to make music that
we would like to listen to. This shit is dark and heavy and lush with a serious
lift.
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