Lip Filler release new single ‘Tricky’

South London innovators Lip Filler release new single Tricky, the first new music to be heard from the band since their EP ‘witchescrew’ was released to widespread fanfare earlier this year. 

Lip Filler’s glowing hat tips from BBC Radio 1 (Jack Saunders, Sian Eleri, Nels Hylton) and BBC 6 Music(Steve Lamacq, Amy Lamé) and a 10/10 rating from Bob Vylan’s Bobby Vylan on Huw Stephens’ 6 Music Roundtable – have seen their stock rise rapidly this year.

Elsewhere, Rolling Stone UK described Lip Filler as “the innovative indie band with a rare musical alchemy“, alongside ardent support from tastemakers such as NME, DIY Magazine, Dork Magazine, The Line of Best Fit, CLASH Magazine, Wonderland Magazine, Whynow & many more. 

For new single Tricky, Lip Filler returned to the studio with producer St Francis Hotel (Little Simz, Michael Kiwanuka). Freshly road-tested on tour with Master Peace, the song’s accompanying video was shot last month at Electric Ballroom in Camden.

Further expanding on their bold artistic vision, Tricky explores themes of betrayal, manipulation, and a conflicted desire to escape London – spearheaded by crushing guitars, rumbling bass lines, off kilter electronics and pummelling drums.

Of the new single, vocalist George Tucker said:  “All of a sudden it was summer. I had submerged myself in a period of introspection. At one point I remember feeling so removed that I wrote the entire opening verse on my leg with a permanent marker on the tube, to the sideward glances of commuters. After scrawling ‘I’m giving up / I’m getting out’, everything began to click. Suddenly it felt cathartic. Two weeks later I moved out of London. After we finished the hook, it ended up becoming this tongue-in-cheek pop song. I’ve noticed we do that a lot. Icebergs. Hopeless anxieties smothered with surface-level sleaze. Maybe that’s what Lip Filler is? I say that like any of us have a clue…”

Operating with a renewed lease of creativity and innovation, Lip Filler are currently completing work on their third EP, due for release on their own witchescrew imprint in 2025.

Lip Filler’s new single Tricky is out now. Stream the track here – https://lipfiller.lnk.to/Tricky or watch the video via YouTube below.

More about Lip Filler

Lip Filler’s self-titled debut EP released back in May of 2023 was a bold statement of intent. Through a lens of frenzied dance-punk and caustic, pop-flecked indie-rock, the EP addressed personal image, self-validation, the overstimulating nature of modern technology and adjusting to life in a new city.

The band’s second EP ‘witchescrew’ released spring 2024 showcased a band insistent on taking more risks than ever before. Across the five track project, Lip Filler set out to defy expectations, challenging themselves to break free from any preconceived notions of what the band was. “I think we’re in an era of music where literally anything is possible” proposed George, a sentiment which pulsed through the veins of ‘witchescrew’.

Swiftly amassing a devoted and feverish following across these two projects, with numerous sold-out headline shows across the capital and beyond (including their own “wall-shaking” party hosted in the band’s west-London flat), Lip Filler have also enjoyed run of buzzy festival appearances including The Great Escape, Dot To Dot, Left Of The Dial, Y Not, VISIONS and more.

Lip Filler have firmly established themselves as one of the most exciting new bands to surface in recent years; with key radio airplay from BBC R1 (Jack Saunders, Sian Eleri, Nels Hylton, Jess Iszatt) BBC 6 Music (Steve Lamacq, Amy Lamé, Huw Stephens), Radio X (John Kennedy) and a whirlwind of press tips from Rolling Stone UK, NME, So Young Magazine, CLASH Magazine, The Line Of Best Fit, Dork Magazine, Wonderland, DIY Magazine, The Independent, Gigwise, Whynow, The Rodeo, YUCK Magazine and more.

Lip Filler are George Tucker (vocals and keys), Verity Hughes (vocals, guitar), Jude Scholefield (vocals, guitar), Theodore Pasmore (bass), Nate Wicks (drums).