LIPWORMS - Teeth

Portsmouth based LIPWORMS caught my attention last year with their debut single 'Handshake', a quality bit of trippy Krautrock released on a Slow Dance compilation. A couple of YouTube visits to their live performances further attested to my initial 'they sound alright actually' assessment, and as such they've very much been on my radar ever since.

Their newly released second single, 'Teeth' offers a slightly different direction for the band, into the world of industrial psych, a term that I've perhaps just made up but one that sounds about right. It's still very much in the realms of trippyness and therefore my happy place, but more industrial beats, acid-house basslines and psych noise/vocals. Which makes it a winner, of course.

'Three separate machine states, soldered together with noise, sweat, and system errors. Expect blown-out drum machines, scream-laced static, and acid lines that trip over themselves. Jagged vocals echo through a distorted void, like corrupted voice memos from a stolen synth. Every sound is either too loud, too broken, or too fast - and that's exactly the point. 404 - clean melodies not found" is how the band describe the track.

The band play London's Sebright Arms tomorrow night and the Wedgewood Rooms in Portsmouth on Thursday, with further gigs at the George Tavern (London - September 10th) and the Purple Turtle in Reading on the 8th October, so go check 'em out.