Lip Critic Lands at 57 on Paste’s 100 Best
The group’s debut album, Hex Dealer, makes Paste Magazines’s “100 Best Albums of 2024.”
Paste Magazine has published their 100 Best Albums of the year, touting Lip Critic, a band formed at Purchase.
“Their debut album, Hex Dealer, is a joyride of blown-out noise and intoxicating calamity as vocalist Bret Kaser talks spirituality, beasts and monsters and depersonalizations in gas stations with the chilling tone of a late-night public access evangelist.”
Peculiar Praise
In a story Paste published earlier this year, Lip Critic: The Best of What’s Next, writer Matt Mitchell referred to the album as…
“..one of the freakiest, crunchiest, grossest albums of 2024.”
The Right Environment
Formed at Purchase in 2018, Lip Critic is Studio Production majors Connor Kleitz ’21, sampler and co-producer, Bret Kaser ’20, lead vocalist and lyricist, and Ilan Natter ’20, one of two drummers. The other drummer is Danny Eberle ’22, an Anthropology major with minors in Journalism and Media Studies.
Having studied music all through high school, Eberle chose a different path at Purchase, but appreciated the music scene here, telling Paste…
“‘Going into college, I was pretty certain I didn’t want to major in music again,’ he says.
“‘I found Purchase to be the right environment to allow me to focus my studies on something else while still being surrounded by awesome musicians.’
“‘The community that we built at Purchase made it a great place to test out new bands and songs and meet so many different musicians with unique music tastes and differing ways of creating and sharing their music.’”
Read Lip Critic: The Best of What’s Next
