SLIPS Release New Single & Video "Drawing Lifelines On"

SLIPS Release New Single & Video "Drawing Lifelines On"
Playing Dallas Single Release Show on June 27 at Texas Theatre

Watch: "Drawing Lifelines On" video on YouTube

Stream: "Drawing Lifelines On" on All Digital Platforms

Today, SLIPS, the new band formed by old friends and musical powerhouses Alex Bhore and Teddy Georgia, are excited to release their new single, "Drawing Lifelines On," and its accompanying music video directed by the band and Daven Martinez. The song debuted today at The Week In Pop and can be shared on Bandcamp and all digital platforms.

Produced and mixed by the duo, with mastering by Dave Cooley, the track features pop hooks fed through ungodly signal chains, combining crushing instrumentation with lyrics that collapse the distance between intimacy and threat.

To celebrate the release, the band will be playing a hometown show on June 27 at Texas Theatre in Dallas. Tickets for the show are on sale now.

Before developing this project, Bhore and Georgia have worked together for years co-composing music for film and scoring immersive art installations (Meow Wolf). Together and separately, both artists have honed in on a signature intuition that only arises from breaking and building sound.

From working on recent studio releases for groups such as Friko and Basement, to scoring music for major video games (Halo Infinite), Alex Bhore is an expert in creating dynamic musical projects. In addition to producing and mixing for other artists at Elmwood Recording in Dallas, TX, he was also the drummer for the bands This Will Destroy You (2009–2016) and The New Frontiers (2006-2008).

Teddy Georgia is an unmistakable musical and textile artist whose practice runs the gamut from multimedia installations and experimental sound art to live performance (Death Valley Girls, Pearl Earl) and art-pop. Alongside the SLIPS single release, she is a lead artist for an upcoming immersive exhibition tied to World Cup tourism, where she will contribute a textile sculpture and compose the installation's soundtrack.

The diversity of the duo's musical and creative experience has resulted in a unique and intoxicating debut single, "Drawing Lifelines On." The song emerged from a years-long process of self-interrogation for Georgia. "I wrote the first verse of 'Drawing Lifelines On' whilst sobbing on an airplane," she says. "I had just spent three days in a nice man’s bunk bed, trying with all my might to make us fall in love. Instead we watched The Deer Hunter and I got a UTI." What began as a single verse expanded over several years, with each new section arriving as she found herself repeating familiar patterns in search of 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," she explains. "Every line helped me dig a little deeper, until I hit the root."

The song slams in mid-thought, as Georgia's voice moves through tenderness and menace atop playfully aggressive synthesizers. Sardonic one-note harmonies shadow her as she draws the blueprints of self-dissolution: "Gerrymandered predilections / Let me dress up in your sweat-drenched eyes." The only guitar in earshot is mangled beyond recognition. The drums will grab you by the collar; the hi-hats might singe your eyebrows clean off.

Bhore knew the track was special from the beginning. "I felt very strongly about 'Drawing Lifelines On' from the moment I heard Teddy's demo," he says. "It was so lyrically visceral and I knew that the surrounding sonics needed to strike the same balance of relentless and delicate." The recording process mirrored the song's emotional evolution, becoming both the first track the duo began for the album and the last one to be completed. Early versions centered around guitar, moved at a slower pace, and lived in a different key. "The final version ultimately came together very quickly and possesses an urgency that I'm proud of," Bhore says.

That urgency culminates in a brutal and embarrassing honesty that lands like a controlled demolition: "I use you to fuck / I use sex for love / I use love for security / I use security to avoid me."

Real freak shit.

Experience "Drawing Lifelines On" by SLIPS streaming now, and catch the chaos live on June 27th at the Texas Theatre.