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Lip Critic 2025 double single

Lip Critic share two new tracks, "Mirror Match" and "Second Life"

09 July 2025, 11:47 | Written by Tyler Damara Kelly

NYC’s Lip Critic have returned with two new singles, "Mirror Match" and "Second Life", marking their first releases of the year.

Lip Critic’s Bret Kaser explains that the songs were born from a prophetic moment after a tour stop, where he fell asleep in a hotel watching baseball highlights. "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," he says.

Brushing the moment off as a bad dream, he checked his phone and saw that he had received a text message from an unknown number, offering the band two days of 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 continues.

"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."

"Mirror Match" and "Second Life" are out now via Partisan Records.

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