Wine Lips “Mushroom Death Sex Bummer Party” 2021. Stomp Records. This is one of the many many colored vinyl variants, I can’t figure out which one. Fiery lava maybe? Heavy, often thrashing garage psych out of Canada. Brilliant! We caught Wine Lips last month at the Miramar Theatre in Milwaukee opening for Frankie and the Witch Fingers and picked up this LP from the merch table after the show. They were fantastic and guitarist/vocalist Cam Hilborn has a spectacular mullet. The rest of the band excellent, too: Aurora Evans on drums, Jordan Sosensky on guitar and Charlie Weare on bass.

Mushroom Death Sex Bummer Party is Wine Lips’ third LP since forming in 2015; their s/t debut came out in 2017. It rocks hard from start to finish, with that modern psych-garage sound that takes lo-fi-ish vocals and backs them with the heaviest of beats and shreds. I love it! My top tracks are the killer opener “Eyes,” the super-short, punk’d “Get Your Money,” the proggy-layered (and really long) thrashing “Suffer the Joy,” and the bashed-up, funk’d up pop-explosion of “Lemonade.”