London five-piece and Chess Club Records signees Lip Filler are as generically elusive as any ‘indie’ band you’ll find in the English capital at the moment. The impressive group have just shared their second EP, “witchescrew”, a body of work that traverses them to new sonic heights, experimental and enigmatic, unafraid to defy boundaries or challenge the listener with tone, timbre and themes.

Alongside the release of the new record, the band have shared details of a website that is now live, entitled witchescrew.net. A highly intriguing concept, we were simply too interested not to ask the band to break down the meaning and influences behind the the EP’s accompanying website…

Listen to the EP…

Read Lip Filler’s website breakdown…

“witchescrew.net has existed since the release of our self-titled debut EP. It was originally created as an exclusive website you could only access by scanning a QR code on the back of the vinyl, but it ended up becoming its own entity…

It’s a bizarre arrangement of worlds which creates a lot of mystery. It lacks direct meaning, yet indirectly ties up well with a lot of lyrical themes. If the EP is the polished, concise version of what we wanna say then witchescrew.net is the stream of consciousness. It’s all the moments that feed into a project that never get seen. All curated by us – coded by our mate Billy Brudenell.

Here’s a few things that have influenced “witchescrew” and live within witchescrew.net…”

“Many of the lyrics on this EP revolve around night-time and the paranormal, with references to sleepwalking in “followup” and a mention of the Old Hag in “Ashtray”; a creature commonly associated with the phenomenon of sleep paralysis.”

“The feeling of waking up uncomfortable but falling back asleep in that same position. £5 boxes of MSG flavoured food. Black coffee that starts your morning wrong. All things that react in unexpected ways that make the biggest impacts to your day and your life, but in themselves are very small. Butterfly effect type thing.”

“Nate used to sit there in the dark after his twelve hour shifts and just think. There’s something quite funny about sitting somewhere alone in the early hours of the morning where people have historically come in larger groups to worship at normal morning times. One’s an age old tradition and the others just a twenty something typing random shit into the notes app and recording voice memos. Is there really much of a difference? Putting everything you can mentally muster into one space. Moments from your camera roll which feel miscellaneous when you captured them, but more important than you ever could’ve imagined in retrospect. Sentiments.”

“It’s really hard to pin down a few tidbits for this EP though, as the writing process started so long ago. “Limelite” and “CARLING” were born at a similar time to the songs on our “>first release. I think the fact that that period, us rehearsing with a full live set up in our living room, pissing off the neighbours, has been brought into our second release almost memorialises it in a way. It makes it even more special to share the highlights of it in our eyes.”

“Here, a have cute little moment of us driving back from a gig late at night:

A little bit of gas George cooked up years and years ago. I think what’s different about “witchescrew” from our first release is that we’re pulling from further back in time to put things into the songs, we’re going a bit deeper, a bit darker and we’re a bit bolder in our decisions.

In the future, expect more of that. I mean, we have no clue what it is we’re gonna do next, but we’re gonna try and draw from similar things. Keep paying attention to all these feelings and places and people that we’ve got the pleasure of being surrounded by. Then the aim is to tactically blackout while doing all the hard work and end up with the music. That you can keep skipping through the honey glade retreat that is life in your head. As you’ve made it up. It’s a never ending battle to try and keep it that way.”