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Indie88 Premiere: Toronto’s Wine Lips embark on a psychedelic, animated journey in video for blistering new single ‘Tension’

Toronto’s Wine Lips have shared a video for their blistering new single, “Tension,” premiering now on Indie88.

The track comes from their forthcoming album, Mushroom Death Summer Party, out this fall via Montreal’s Stomp Records. “Tension” is a perfectly raucous tune, with stomp-worthy percussion, wailing guitar riffs, and anthemic vocals. The track truly cements Wine Lips’ indie-garage-rock sound. The accompanying video is animated and directed b y Leesa Westwood. It sees Wine Lips heading on a trippy, skeletal journey through colourful scenes.

“The “Tension’ video was animated by my friend Leesa Westwood during the covid lockdown,” Wine Lips singer Cam Hilborn explains. “She created a frame by frame animation kind of playing off the lyrics and the reaction to dissociation and delusion mixed with psychedelics.”

Watch the video for “Tension” below.

“You know when you go to a music festival and do a bunch of mushrooms with your roommate? That’s what this song is about,” Hilborn adds. “Basically it’s inspired by the highs and lows of the trip and the bizarre conversations about life and death that we ended up having throughout the process.”

About the forthcoming Wine Lips album:

Death Sex Bummer Party is a collection of psych-rock hits. The album draws influences by bands like IDLES, Ty Segall, Buzzcocks, Parquet Courts, and more. It was recorded at London, Ontario’s The Sugar Shack with Simon Larochette.

“The record is crazy! We really spent a lot of time getting the songs to sound exactly the way we wanted,” Hilborn says. “I think this is the best stuff we’ve recorded and I’m super stoked with the end result!”

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Lead photo courtesy of Alex Carre.

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