Lip Filler announce their new EP witchescrew will be released on 24th May via Chess Club Records. To accompany the news they share their new single ‘followup‘. The single arrives in the wake of recent support slots with O. and Master Peace as well as being tipped for success in a number of Ones To Watch in 2024 lists. It offers a tantalising triad of surrealist vocal bites from George Tucker, Verity Hughes and Jude Scholefield; their collective musings over nocturnal activity – specifically diving into curiosities surrounding sleepwalking – entangled in a web of scratchy guitar jolts, punchy drum passages and glitched-out electronics.
Discussing new single ‘followup‘, the band said:
“‘followup’ is about impatience. Time is a precious thing; when we are told to wait for something sometimes we feel as though we’re not making any progress. We push ourselves to ensure we’re occupying our time efficiently. Taking this to the extreme would mean avoiding sleep altogether, or sleepwalking. I think that’s how this song began to adopt more paranormal themes…
This song feels like a big turning point for us. I think we can all agree that this is the closest we’ve ever sounded to how we always wanted to sound. We’ve always tried to add an element of unpredictability to our music which followup captures really well. It’s always felt like a Frankenstein of a song; stitching it together was a nightmare. But what we ended up with feels like our most accomplished track to date.”
The song’s accompanying video was directed by Jude Harrison and edited by the band’s own George Tucker. Speaking on the video, the band shared:
“The singers in the video are kind of trapped in their locations on their own; they’re stuck and they can’t move out of them. There’s no real sense of time in the video either, similar to how your memories aren’t organised like a calendar; different times in your life feel shorter than others based on how you’re feeling. Time flies when you’re having fun, and vice versa. All of it is stitched together by our very own George Tucker, and huge credit to Jude Harrison for helping us bring all our ideas together.”
The new EP’s corresponding website witchescrew.net has existed since the release of the band’s 2023 self-titled debut EP, originally created as an exclusive site accessible only by scanning a QR code on the back of the EP vinyl, it ended up becoming its own entity…
“It’s a bizarre arrangement of words which creates a lot of mystery,” the band explain. “It lacks direct meaning, yet indirectly ties up well with a lot of lyrical themes. Many of the lyrics on this EP revolve around night-time and the paranormal, with references to sleepwalking in ‘followup’ and a mention of the Old Hag in ‘Ashtray’; a creature commonly associated with phenomenon of sleep paralysis.
“Writing the songs for our first EP felt pure; we were a close-knit group of friends from home who also had the privilege of being in a band together. Being a happy family wasn’t the reason we became musicians, though. We took this project much more seriously. We wanted this EP to sound like what we’d want other bands to be making right now if we weren’t a part of the scene.”
Lip Filler Live Dates
MAY
25th: A Stone’s Throw Festival, Newcastle
JUNE
11th: The Victoria, London
12th:The Louisiana, Bristol
13th: The Castle Hotel, Manchester
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