Release: August 22, 2025
Genres: noise rock, garage rock, postpunk
Format: Cassette, Digital
FFO: Pissed Jeans, Wire, Idles
Label: Strange Mono Records
It’s nine tightly wound songs of raw energy, B-movie delirium, and no-bullshit intent—a record built for urgency, not overthinking. On this recording, Dog Lips carve out a sound that hits like a brick and leaves behind a smear of static. Their second full-length captures the band at their most lean and immediate, fusing punk urgency, hard rock bravado, and twitchy new wave dissonance into something loud, fast, and entirely their own. Recorded in just three days at Big Nice Studio in Rhode Island with producer Bradford Krieger (who also contributed keys), ‘Danger Forward’ was designed to capture Dog Lips at their most combustible. “We wrote these songs in a frenzy of a self-created deadline,” the band shares. “Fueled by the sound of a thousand hungry clocks, we followed the instincts of our collaborative songwriting and left no time to overthink.”
The sessions were quick, volatile, and stripped of excess — resulting in tracks that sound barely held together, driven more by instinct than precision. That urgency bleeds into the album’s atmosphere—thick with themes of modern anxiety and absurdity, delivered without a second take. The guitars cut sharp, the drums crash like demolition, and the shared vocals feel urgent, confrontational, and just a little unhinged. Referencing the surreal grind of office life, forgotten wars, and B-movie chaos, Dog Lips lean hard into jagged storytelling and pub-rock punch.
“Our goal with this record was to create a no-nonsense new-wave tinged rock n roll album (nine big ones) that capture the haze of workplace boredom, forgotten wars, B-movie plots, and angry landlords,” they add. “If you listen closely to ‘Voicemail Bomb Threat,’ you can hear one particularly ominous message left on Tim’s phone by our landlord. This record is a no-frills display of Dog Lips pub-rocking punch and our first proper shot in the studio.” Whether in basements, dive bars, or late-night sweatboxes, they’ve made noise a tool for connection, and chaos a method.
The band haven’t sanded off the corners. If anything, the album leans harder into discomfort and confrontation, pushing their hybrid of punk and sleaze-rock into tighter, more deliberate chaos. It’s the sound of a band crystallizing its mission: to make music that grabs first, asks questions later, and never overstays its welcome. ‘Danger Forward’ from Dog Lips is coming out on August 22 via Strange Mono Records. Pre-order here.
Dog Lips are:
Griffin Ritzo – Guitar and Vocals
Owen Shepcaro – Guitar and Vocals
Quinn Flanigan – Bass
Tim Graff – Drums and Vocals
Bradford Krieger – Engineer and Keys
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