LIP CRITIC
ANNOUNCE DEBUT ALBUM:
‘HEX DEALER’
OUT 17 MAY, VIA PARTISAN
LISTEN TO NEW SONG/VIDEO:
“MILKY MAX”
PLUS, PLAY THE “MILKY MAX” VIDEO GAME NOW HERE
+ UK TOUR DATES CONFIRMED FOR 2024
NYC-based electronic punk band LIP CRITIC have detailed their anticipated debut album – ‘Hex Dealer’ – out 17th May via Partisan Records.
To coincide with the announcement, the band has shared the album’s lead single and accompanying music video: “Milky Max”.
STREAM “MILKY MAX” HERE
“Milky Max” is a pulverising slab of electronic hardcore. The song’s shapeshifting groove anchors a sound that’s theatrical, captivatingly irreverent, and completely outside so much of modern experimental music. Meanwhile Bret Kaser’s vocal delivery feels like it’s being delivered by a cult leader who has occupied the announcer’s booth at a football stadium and refuses to come out (“All my life I just wanted to live / Now I gotta die just because of what I did”).
The official video for “Milky Max” showcases a fully playable video game inspired by the song and designed by Jesse Natter (brother of Lip Critic drummer Ilan Natter). Direct link to play the video game HERE.
“Milky Max” follows previous singles “It’s The Magic” and “The Heart,” which earned early critical acclaim from NME (“on their way to becoming the next great NYC band”), Paste (“an apocalyptic wasteland of NYC’s best underground punk”), Rolling Stone (‘Songs You Need to Know’), Mary Anne Hobbs on BBC 6 Music, and Matt Wilkinson (“totally essential”). Lip Critic are also on the latest digital cover of NME, read the story here.
Produced in collaboration by vocalist Bret Kaser and Connor Kleitz, ‘Hex Dealer’ represents an evolution of the eclectic style that the group began cultivating on earlier projects. Drummers Danny Eberle and Ilan Natter combine breakbeats and pingy snares with heavy cymbal and tom work, creating a singular mixture of classic punk/hardcore and electronic styles. The end result is 12 frantic tracks of postmodern pop for the genreless future. A project of wide-reaching sonic and thematic curiosity, above all ‘Hex Dealer’ is an inquisition into the state of spiritual marketplace and the isolating results of consumption.
Audiences have also already been captured by the sheer energy and undeniable chemistry as they toured the US, sharing stages with IDLES, Screaming Females, and Geese, and made their way across the UK / EU including a stop at the Pitchfork Festival in Paris. Lip Critic will tour extensively behind ‘Hex Dealer’, including stops at SXSW, End Of The Road and further UK dates. UK dates are listed below.
LIP CRITIC – UK TOUR DATES:
13 May – The Louisiana – Bristol, UK
14 May – The Deaf Institute (The Lodge) – Manchester, UK
15 May – The Windmill – London, UK
29 Aug – 01 Sep – End of the Road – UK
LIP CRITIC – DEBUT ALBUM: ‘HEX DEALER’ – OUT 17 MAY, VIA PARTISAN
LISTEN TO: “MILKY MAX” NOW
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‘Hex Dealer’ tracklist:
1. It’s The Magic
2. Love Will Redeem You
3. The Heart
4. Bork Pelly (feat. Ghösh, ID.Sus)
5. Spirit Bomber
6. Death Lurking (feat. Izzy Da Fonseca)
7. Milky Max
8. Sermon
9. I’m Alive
10. My Wife And The Goblin
11. In The Wawa (Convinced I Am God)
12. Toxin Dodger
