Wine Lips
Super Mega Ultra
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https://exclaim.ca/music/article/wine-lips-super-mega-ultra-album-review
Wine Lips' latest is a siren's call to air guitar and air drum enthusiasts the world over. On Super Mega Ultra, lead vocalist and guitarist Cam Hilborn, bassist Simon Larochette and heavy hitting Toronto drum legend Aurora Evans craft the wildest, most kaleidoscope-goggled and jet-fuelled rock album of the young year. After 2021's Mushroom Death Sex Bummer Party, the band has gone even further into the psycho-stratosphere for their follow-up; from the opening crunch of early single "Derailer," the vibes are firmly established — fast, unrelenting riffs and groovy, stomping beats held together by the hazy swagger of Hilborn's pipes.
Thriving in Toronto's mid-2010s psych rock scene, Wine Lips quickly established themselves as the tightest, most reliable garage-psych group with a penchant for the prolific. With 2019's Stressor, the band announced themselves; they'd officially grabbed the torch from predecessors like Thee Oh Sees and promptly doused it in gasoline. Like much of their past work, Super Mega Ultra trades in paranoid nights gone wrong, barbed self-takedowns and sometimes, self-prescribed moments of sober joy. "Hey, don't do your head in / You're so delighted when you get serotonin / You need to get excited excited excited excited" Hilborn sings on "Serotonin," a winking indictment of the tired rock 'n' roll lifestyle — moments later, he repeats that he needs to "stay hydrated," though he doesn't detail what liquids he's imbibing.
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