There’s something thrilling about watching two seasoned creative forces collide for the first time, and that’s exactly what’s happening with SLIPS. The new project from longtime friends Alex Bhore and Teddy Georgia has just unleashed its debut single and video, Drawing Lifelines On, and it’s the kind of introduction that demands attention — equal parts tender and feral.
The track is out now alongside a music video co-directed by the band and Daven Martinez, and it’s available now on Bandcamp and all the usual streaming spots. Bhore and Georgia handled production and mixing themselves, with mastering from Dave Cooley, resulting in a sound that’s pure pop instinct run through absolutely unhinged signal chains. The instrumentation hits like a wrecking ball while the lyrics quietly dismantle the line between closeness and danger.
Two Artists, Years in the Making
This isn’t a debut built on beginner’s luck. Bhore and Georgia have spent years working side by side, co-composing for film and crafting soundscapes for immersive art installations, including work with Meow Wolf. That shared history means SLIPS arrives already fluent in a language only the two of them speak — one built on taking sound apart and rebuilding it from scratch.
Bhore’s resume alone is a deep well: studio work with Friko and Basement, composing for Halo Infinite, producing and mixing out of Elmwood Recording in Dallas, and time behind the kit for This Will Destroy You and The New Frontiers.
Georgia, meanwhile, moves fluidly between textile art, experimental sound, and live performance — she’s played with Death Valley Girls and Pearl Earl, and is currently lead artist on an upcoming World Cup–adjacent immersive exhibition, where she’ll contribute both a textile sculpture and the full soundtrack.
The Story Behind the Song
Drawing Lifelines On started as a single verse, written by Georgia mid-flight while processing a particularly chaotic situationship. From there it grew over several years into something much bigger — a song about repeating the same painful patterns while searching for love and stability.
“I knew I wanted to build a home with my best friends, but instead I kept shoving all my energy down the throats of my lovers, and I couldn’t figure out why. Every line helped me dig a little deeper, until I hit the root.“
That excavation shows up in lines like “Gerrymandered predilections / Let me dress up in your sweat-drenched eyes” — sung through tenderness and menace over synths that feel playfully aggressive. The guitar buried in there is mangled past recognition, and the drums hit like they’re grabbing you by the collar.
Bhore knew it was something special the moment he heard the demo.
“I felt very strongly about ‘Drawing Lifelines On’ from the moment I heard Teddy’s demo. It was so lyrically visceral and I knew that the surrounding sonics needed to strike the same balance of relentless and delicate.“
Fittingly, the track was both the first song the duo started for the album and the last one finished — early versions were slower, guitar-driven, and in a different key entirely before the final version clicked into place.
“The final version ultimately came together very quickly and possesses an urgency that I’m proud of.”
That urgency lands hardest in the song’s final gut-punch: “I use you to fuck / I use sex for love / I use love for security / I use security to avoid me.” Real freak shit, as the press release so accurately puts it.
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