Witnessing Lip Critic onstage is an odd magic. Having earned their stripes at TV Eye and Saint Vitus in NYC, the brash foursome landed on a sound uniformly singular — two drums, two samplers, and no guitars. What begins as jittery cool can simply as quickly erupt into an unanticipated breakdown or death-metal growl from frontman Bret Kaser. It’s music meant to entertain as a lot as experiment with, bringing about wonky chaos that owes as a lot to digital and hip-hop as punk. In different phrases, it simply makes you wish to transfer.
Their subsequent album, Theft World, ups the madness, conceived whereas touring 2024’s Hex Supplier. After Kaser’s identification was stolen, the band found the scammer was actually a fan who’d used his info to attempt to uncover hidden messages and codes inside their music. Moderately than turning him in, they recorded his rationalization and used it to jump-start their subsequent album. Finally, Theft World is about “taking one thing ugly and utilizing it to make one thing cute. It’s about consuming an absurd world and falling in love with it as you digest.”
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Directed by Colter Fellows, that world cracks open of their new “Legs In A Snare” video, the place their twisted mayhem blurs into playful surrealism. In it, Kaser travels round Manhattan’s Monetary District with a digital camera fastened to his head, devised by Fellows utilizing Beastgrip, and meets a solid of demented characters. “That is by far the most individuals now we have ever concerned in certainly one of our tasks, so the absurdity of the state of affairs was actually hitting me in the course of the shoot,” Kaser tells AP. “This shot [above] looks like all of us simply died in a bus accident collectively.” Get a behind-the-scenes take a look at their “Legs In A Snare” video beneath, forward of a full tour schedule.
This complete day felt like I dreamed it. I had slept for about two hours the evening earlier than, after which I awoke, took an hour prepare, and was telling a set of twins to bounce with a lifeless physique.
As we had been engaged on this character, we began referring to him as “The Specter.” An enormous reference was Masato Hagiwara’s character from Remedy.
We had been going across the monetary district with this headset on for a bunch of the POV photographs, and I ended up operating by a line of those who had been ready to take images with the bull on Wall Road. I scared the hell out of this girls, so I went to apologize, however she ended up simply asking me to take a pic of my nails for her Instagram story.
These children had been slamming on these drums. Like to see it.
All of the POV photographs had been shot with this head set that Colter Fellows (the director of the video) put along with stuff from Beastgrip. He’s been capturing majority on iPhone for some time and has developed some actual sauce with it. He’s an incredible artist/director, and we’ve been having a silly quantity of enjoyable engaged on these movies.
Dawson Curtis made all of the props for this video, and he killed it! We’re presently attempting to determine find out how to make a dupe of this ball that we are able to promote as merch.
The entire close-up photographs of individuals’s faces had been executed with this triangular array of LED tubes. It might flow into mild across the faces in a round movement that introduced out all of the contours of the faces. After a minute of watching it, it begins wanting like these “took an image day-after-day for 10 years” movies.
Contact lenses are mad arduous to placed on. Colter had the concept to provide Johnny (on the best) pink eyes after which give Aleana (on the left) one pink eye. We ended up having one particular person maintain her eye lids open whereas one other tried to drop it in, and it took most likely 20 tries all collectively. Shouts out to Aleana for being a trooper. That will need to have sucked.
That is Colter, Mike, and Johnny, from left to proper. Mike and Johnny are actually the soul of the video to me. I initially noticed Johnny in a video known as “Moon Hoax,” and I simply sort of knew he wanted to be on this video. Mike was such a chiller and killed each take. He’s in a hearth Sabrina Carpenter video, too.
