Lip Critic Announce New Album Theft World, Drop Lead Single "Legs in a Snare"

"As the electronic punk act tells it, the origins of the seemingly half-conceptual Theft World began while the band was touring their Partisan debut, Hex Dealer. Frontman Bret Kaser discovered his identity had been stolen, and that, furthermore, his information had been used to make hundreds of purchases - including his own band's full discography on Bandcamp. After tracking down the scammer, the crew learned it was a young fan (reportedly wearing a Five Nights at Freddy's hoodie) who proudly confessed to the crime."

""Theft World is an ode to the power and pervasiveness of stealing," the band said in a statement. "It's about taking something ugly and using it to make something cute. It's about eating an absurd world and falling in love with it as you digest." It's a bananas story. So bananas, in fact, that we're suspicious if it actually happened or the absurdist quartet are tapping into their inner Bob Dylan or Cameron Winter, crafting a narrative for sheer fun and the art of myth-making."

NYC electronic punk act Lip Critic will release a new album, Theft World, on May 1 via Partisan Records, and released the lead single "Legs in a Snare" with an unsettling video. The album's origin story began when frontman Bret Kaser discovered his identity had been stolen and used to make hundreds of purchases, including the band's Bandcamp discography. After locating the scammer, the band encountered a young fan who claimed to be following hidden messages in the catalog; the band recorded the fan's imagined lore and used it as the album's groundwork. Theft World centers on themes of theft and transforming ugliness into something endearing, presented through propulsive, unpredictable electro-punk with rapid dynamic shifts and high energy.

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