Lip Critic II, by Lip Critic

Lip Critic II

by Lip Critic

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ryxxbn this album sounds like if xiu xiu had a brother

kmddr AND I SAID OHH MYYYY GODDDDDDD I CANT BELIEVE MYYY LUCKKK Favorite track: Dreamland 1.

chillyboi I’m so glad to live in a timeline where this album exists Favorite track: Dreamland 1.

eldudowski probably the most eyepopping thing I've heard recently. fkn crazy racket. totally unique. nuts.

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Pro-dubbed transparent pink cassette with black ink on-body shell print in a smoky tint library case. No inlay.

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Catalogue No: CN146

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	1.	Why Not? 02:35
	2.	Blueman 03:09
	3.	How Could You Do This To Me/Why Would You Do This To Me? 01:31
	4.	6ft Tongue (When I'm With You) 01:43
	5.	Dreamland 1 01:48
	6.	Dreamland 2 01:27
	7.	Monkey's Paw Crystal Ball (feat. ID. Sus) 04:13
	8.	Like A Lemon! 02:42
	9.	Lip Critic 01:55

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Heavily influenced by visual and performance art, New York's Lip Critic is an electronic punk band comprised of two drummers, two samplers, and vocals.

The group formed in New York in 2018 and released an EP (Kill Lip Critic) as well as a myriad of singles throughout 2019.

“Lip Critic II” is the debut full length album from the group.
The album follows the narrative of an alien abductee after they have been returned to earth, and being unable to readjust to normal life.

“New York’s Lip Critic return with their second album, imaginatively titled Lip Critic II. Now, I have a tendency – and I know it’s spurious – to associate numbered albums with prog and indulgence, ranging from Peter Gabriel to Led Zeppelin. But there is nothing remotely proggy or indulgent about Lip Critic’s second eponymous release, which crams nine tracks into 21 minutes of genre hybridity and maniacal mayhem. And make no mistake: this is intense and crazy shit, all going off in a boiler at once.

The lazy hookline would be that the album’s first track, ‘Why Not’, sounds like The B52s on acid, but more accurately, it sounds like The B52s on acid and meth imitating a fictitious Dead Kennedys / obscure hip-hop collaboration for the Judgement Night soundtrack. But none of this really convey just how frantic, frenetic, fucked-up and actually quite how wrong this all is. Yes, the world of Lip Critic is a bewildering one that absolutely defines the concept of ‘crossover’, and the closest comparison I can think of is Castrovalva, who were ace but niche and probably for a reason. It’s so far into niche crossover it’s hard to determine the level of seriousness behind the hybridized mess of noise that is Lip Critic II: this is an album that goes beyond so many boundaries all at once.

I don’t know what this is, and I suspect it doesn’t either. And nor should it: music should exist for its own sake, free from any constraints of genre. But with Lip Critic, it’s brain-bending and bewildering: there is simply so much going on, and all of it’s incongruous and seemingly incompatible.

‘Dreamland I’ is out-and-out mad, not so much a mash-up or hybrid as a multi-genre pileup with gas tank explosions and flames and wailing sirens and probably some people being cut from cars by fire and rescue and others being abducted by aliens.

‘Like a Lemon’ brings garage, grime, and industrial-strength hip-hop together with mangled beats a punishingly heavy groove that provides a backdrop to a more narrative-orientated approach to the lyrics, describing a guy with ‘A double-breasted suit and tight shorts / they’re so tight they cut off the circulation to his legs / … he said ‘I’m going to fill you up with rhinestones

At every turn, Lip Critic deliver mind bombs of every shape and form: sonically, stylistically, lyrically, Lip Critic II is simply an explosion. With every song being so brief, one barely has time to realise it’s started before it’s finished, and by the end, the listener is left punch-drunk, bewildered and dizzy. I think it’s good. I think it’s horrible. I think it’s a mess. But I can’t be sure.“ (Aural Aggravation)

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released October 16, 2020

music and production by lip critic
lyrics by bret kaser

track 3 produced by kristian pitaccio
track 7 music lyrics and production by lip critic and ID.Sus

lip critic is: danny eberle ilan natter connor kleitz bret kaser

drums engineered by kristian pitaccio
mastered by phil moffa at butcha sound

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Channelling sonic diversity since 2013

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