The Belair Lip Bombs announce US headline tour + share ‘Back Of My Hand’ from Again LP (out Oct 31 via Third Man Records)
PRAISE FOR The Belair Lip Bombs
“Indie rock made to hit right in the pleasure center, built from a sturdy record collection but also possessed of a breeziness that belies any clenched study”
“The Australian quartet’s punchy, hook-packed songs combine immediacy and complexity in a way that recalls the Strokes”
“Somewhere between punk, post-punk, jangle pop and new wave. Of course, they don’t need to settle on just one – variety suits them just fine”
“With their honest lyrics and eclectic quality - it’s hard not to get a Lip Bomb song stuck in your head”
“As the first taste of second album Again, 'Hey You' is an excellent sign of things to come”
“Power pop excellence at its purest!”
THE BELAIR LIP BOMBS
Again LP
Oct 31 via Third Man Records
PRE-SAVE HERE
TRACKLIST
Again and Again
Don’t Let Them Tell You (It’s Fair)
Another World
Cinema
Back Of My Hand
Hey You
If You’ve Got The Time
Smiling
Burning Up
Price Of A Man
‘Back Of My Hand‘ is out now, buy/stream it here.
The Belair Lip Bombs’ long standing live favourite, ‘Back Of My Hand’, sees its official release today. Landing ahead of the group’s forthcoming album Again, out on Oct 31 via Third Man Records with the news of their next co-headline US tour with dust come March-April 2026. LISTEN HERE + PRE-SAVE/PRE-ORDER LP HERE.
‘Back Of My Hand’ is a jubilant remark on affection. Recalling Lip Bombs’ craft for instant anthemability, here they make as delirium-inducing a feeling as the highs of love, feel worth it. Buoyed by loud-quiet impulses the group compare to influences in the Pixies to Nirvana, steady picking notes stir into one of their upcoming album’s most satisfying guitar breakdowns. ‘Back Of My Hand’s chorus charges with the thrill of the sensation: “Trust in me baby, I feel alive / Love makes me crazy but it’s you everytime.”
“Writing the lyrics was an up-and-down process,” Maisie explains. “I wrote the second verse first, the night I got home from the rehearsal where we wrote the song. I got a bit stoned and laid in bed with a notepad and a pen and the lyrics and the melody kinda just poured out of me, which pretty much never happens, so I guess it was a fluke.”
The Belair Lip Bombs immediately pull you in with their self-coined “yearn-core,” a combination of quick-footed rhythms, warm and fuzzy guitar melodies, and Maisie’s cathartic vocals. Springboarding Kings Of Leon to Yeah Yeah Yeahs, theirs is an earnestness with ultra sticky power-pop song structures that crash through – no skips. Maisie’s staunch leadership backed by the powerhouse combination of Mike, Jimmy and Dev, paint a surface happy-go-lucky, limerence rock sound, Her staunch performance with pummelling instrumentation is bound for endless toe-tapping, conceal biting words of pining desire to toxic behaviours, self doubt and unabashed joy. Together their unshakable connection as a band shines high.
Again, produced by the band, Nao Anzai (The Teskey Brothers, Missy Higgins, Mildlife), and Joe White (Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever) – the first time The Belair Lip Bombs worked with a producer – is set to be another home run for the group who have built a loyal local following since their formation eight years ago. Pieced together along the road, between soundchecks and meagre time back home in the turbo wake of their debut album. Endlessly listenable, Again is the real time soundtrack to a band trudging forward in their careers, set to cement their DIY style into one of the country’s next larger than life bands.
The Belair Lips Bombs are Maisie Everett, Mike Bradvica, Jimmy Droughton, and Daniel “Dev” Devlin, who first formed the band in a Melbourne suburb, Frankston’s DIY venue Singing Bird Studio. Upon graduating from high school, they juggled band life with day jobs, working to define a sound inspired by classic rock pillars like the Rolling Stones and Television as well as indie stalwarts like the War On Drugs and Stephen Malkmus. They spent the first years as a band opening for Australian favorites like Ladyhawke, Slowly Slowly, and Tired Lion before releasing their more grunge-inspired self-titled debut EP in 2018 and then the poppier three-track follow-up, Songs to Do Your Laundry To (2019). In 2023 they would make their most defining statement on their debut record Lush Life, 10 tracks of evocative exploration; stories that run a gamut of longing, seeking new horizons and discovering new paths to satisfaction and self-fulfilment.
If debut albums are meant to serve as the gateway, a first impression, then The Belair Lip Bombs’ introductory effort paints a vibrant and emotive portrait of a band truly finding their sound. Initially released on Cousin Will Records in Australia – Lush Life was recently reissued through Jack White’s Third Man Records, culminating as both the first Australian release on the international label. Since then, the group have performed globally at Austin’s SXSW festival and The Great Escape in the UK and locally at Laneway Festival, Golden Plains to national tours supporting Hockey Dad, Militarie Gun, Blondshell and earlier this year, Spacey Jane across the US. The group have also embarked on a longlist of headline tours in Australia, New Zealand and the UK/EU – including sold out shows in London, Melbourne, Brisbane and more.
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