A Preview of Lip Critic for Track Zero
A preview of Lip Critic for Track Zero at Gabe's on February 19th. Derived from the previous time they played in Iowa City.
Derived from the previous time the New York City band Lip Critic performed in Iowa City in October of 2024.
"The concept of genre is more philosophical and less of a particular sound to me. Most things to me get filed under “punk” or a fucking garbage can. There isn’t anything outside of that."
-Travis Miller
I remember horror in middle school, where the plots to R-rated movies we were too young to see without a parent were whispered around classrooms. YouTube creepies (the music video for DyE's "Fantasy", lasagnacat , etc.) spread around around Chromebook screens like passed notes. I guess it was all simpler.
A few years later...
My dear friend passed me a note:
A song she'd found online;
Lip Critic's single "The Loan".
If there exists rock of the psychedelic kind, then this was rock of the stimulant kind. Not the sort snorted by club kids, but the prescription strength kind, thrown at spastics to curb an unstoppable tour-de-force. With their shows that feel like watching four people brew potions on stage, they move as if hexing was what they were born to do. Bret Kaser's already vexing vocal style gets heightened by a borderline animalistic performance. It's everything you could ever dream of, right at your fingertips!
Calling all dirtbags, rotten girls, freaks, & the like, to Lip Critic, joined by locals Recess and Ascended Master, on Thursday, February 19th for Track Zero at Gabe's in Iowa City!!!