Lip Critic have returned with new tracks “Mirror Match” and “Second Life,” the band’s first new music since the release of their 2024 album Hex Dealer. The songs were born in a flash of cosmic coincidence and baseball-fueled mysticism, accompanied by a surreal music video styled like an off-brand cooking show episode, complete with Sandra Lee-inspired semi-homemade absurdity.

Lip Critic will be touring North America this summer with headline dates, festival appearances, a co-headline run with Hello Mary, and support slots for MSPAINT, Pat and the Pissers & Mannequin Pussy.

Lip Critic’s Bret Kaser says about the creation of the songs:

“We were on tour near the end of 2024 and had just played our LA show. We had a two day gap before our next show in Santa Ana so we got a room at the hotel Casa Grande. That night after the drive I fell asleep watching Randy Johnson highlight reels. All the great moments from his time as a Diamondback, as well as his years on the Yankees and the Giants.

That night I had a dream I met a tall man with a body made entirely of radiant light wearing a baseball cap. He opened his arms and from them came two perpendicular rays that shot around me to form the shape of a diamond. When the tips of the rays connected I was engulfed in a thunderous sound, like that of a waterfall. It shook me so much that I woke up in a jolt. I woke to see that I had been writhing in my sleep and had completely displaced the other 3 members I had been sharing this queen bed with.

I apologized and brushed it off as another bad dream brought on by a late night binging baseball history videos on YouTube. Upon checking my phone, I saw I had received a text in the night from a number I didn’t recognize, offering us two days of unexpected studio time.

When we arrived at the studio that day, he opened the door wearing a fitted baseball cap, towering over our band with an average height of 5’8”. I instantly felt a familiarity. As he showed us around I felt a sense of having returned, like visiting your old elementary school once again for a younger siblings’ graduation. He led us to the control room which was equipped with a speaker system large enough for a room quadruple the size. He stood at one corner and I sat in a chair directly opposite. The square room shifted to a diamond by our perspectives.

He turned the speakers up and without hesitation played us through a whirlwind of different music at an unbelievable volume, and I was engulfed in a thunderous sound, like that of a waterfall. “Mirror Match” and “Second Life” were two tracks made and completed in the two days at his studio.”

Lip Critic 2025 tour dates:

July 19 – Market Hotel – Brooklyn, NY*
July 20 – Middle East Upstairs – Boston, MA*
July 21 – No Fun – Troy, NY*
July 22 – Bottlerocket – Pittsburgh, PA*
July 24 – Mahall’s – Cleveland, OH*
July 25 – Dirty Dungarees – Columbus, OH*
July 26 – T-Rex Fest – Grand Rapids, MI
July 27 – Wicker Park Fest – Chicago, IL
July 27 – Beat Kitchen (Wicker Park Aftershow) – Chicago, IL
July 29 – Zhora Darling – Minneapolis, MN*
July 30 – The Ship – Lawrence, KS*
August 1 – Marquis – Denver, CO*
August 2 – The DLC – Salt Lake City, UT*
August 3 – The Shredder – Boise, ID*
August 5 – Barboza – Seattle, WA*
August 6 – Polaris Hall – Portland, OR*
August 8 – Neck of the Woods – San Francisco, CA*
August 9 – Humdinger – San Luis Obispo, CA*
August 10 – Lodge Room – Los Angeles, CA*
August 11 – Casbah – San Diego, CA*
August 12 – Club Congress – Tucson, AZ*
August 14 – 29th Street Ballroom – Austin, TX*
August 15 – Club Dada – Dallas, TX*
August 16 – Siberia – New Orleans, LA*
September 23 – Charleston, SC – Music Farm+
September 24 – Knoxville, TN – Bijou Theatre+
September 27 – CBGB Festival – Under the K Bridge Park – Brooklyn, NY
November 1 – Austin, TX – Levitation Halloween

*(MSPAINT & Pat and the Pissers)
+(w/ Mannequin Pussy)

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