The Sick Lipstick - 2002 The Sick Lipstick

Band : The Sick Lipstick
Album : The Sick Lipstick
Release Year : 2002
Genre : Noise | Punk | Experimental

Tracklist:

1 The Bloody Ropes
2 Creamy Plastic Pink Leotard
3 Sermon From Between His Legs
4 Smudged Lipstick
5 Cardinal Newman
6 Let Me See Your Woman's Bump

Shortly after the demise of their former band Black Cat #13 in 2001, Lindsey Gillard and Mark McLean joined forces with Allan Graham to form the quirky punk rock group The Sick Lipstick. During the two-year period in which Black Cat #13 was together, they managed to garner a large, devout following, even though they only put out a handfull of vinyl-only releases, including a 7” on the influencial Three.One.G label.

The band’s debut EP was released by Sound Virus, an up and coming California label that has put out records by great and cutting edge bands such as The Blood Brothers, Liars and Pretty Girls Make Graves. Since it’s release in September of 2002, the EP has sold strongly with little promotion, due to the large following of Black Cat #13.

A punk album on acid. This is absolutely NOT for the typical punk fan, but for a more open minded punk fan, if any. A homerun for the noise punk/lo-fi genre!

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The Sick Lipstick - 2003 Sting Sting Sting

Band : The Sick Lipstick

Album : Sting Sting Sting

Release Year : 2003

Genre : Noise / Indie / Art punk

Tracklist : 

1. Go To Bed!

2. Thigh Master, I'm Yr Master

3. Sting Sting Sting

4. Pretend I'm Sleeping

5. 10-4 Can You Read Me?

6. Mommy's At The Grocery Store

7. Zombie Cookie

8. Knit Stitch / Crotch Itch

9. Come Get Yr Eggs

10. Get Up! Catch Up!

11. She's Got A Broken Femur

12 Cats Are Dangerous

Such a dirty mouth Ms. Lindsey Gillard has! Behind the head-splitting no-wave/art-punk cacophony of steady drum skin bruising and grating guitar noise, Gillard yelps humorously obscene childlike bathroom scrawling for the entire length of this 28 minute release. You wouldn’t know it from just listening, though- the lyrics are only intelligible when you hold the liner notes in front of your face. Santa Claus insemination, erogenous hair pulling, both fallen and pulled down pantaloons, tongue enforced retching- it’s all here and it’s all charmingly screeched like Sixteen Candles-era Molly Ringwald on helium injected ecstasy.
Part cancer paranoia, part coitus masochism, the standout second track “Thigh Master, I’m Yr Master” includes a tiny sprinkling of keyboard to give the otherwise discordant seizure number some harmony. “Pretend I’m Sleeping,” with its off-color comatose sex subject matter would sound offensive if it weren’t for Gillard’s pig-tails and mini-skirt delivery--making lines such as “No I didn’t want to scrape it out / When your sperm crashed through” sound almost cute--like infants cussing. Sting Sting Sting is, if nothing else, a fun little record to use to frighten conservative music listeners.
Like a frighteningly straight God is My Co-Pilot, The Sick Lipstick won’t find themselves being spun ‘n scanned in my player very often due to my limited tolerance, and I believe many others’ (which sadly makes the style a bit novelty, mix-tape fodder, or both) for the new-no-wave genre in heavy doses. The juxtaposition of Gillard’s explicitly raunchy howling with her childlike voice give Sting Sting Sting a hole-in-the-wall-looking-into-the-dirty-Catholic-schoolgirl-dressing-room feel. Besides, when was the last time you heard anyone beyond early grade school scream “I’ve got mud on my pants! Mud on my pants!”? Probably no one—until you get to track two. 


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The Sick Lipstick - 2002 The Sick Lipstick EP

Band : The Sick Lipstick

Album : The Sick Lipstick EP

Release Year : 2002

Genre : Noise / Indie / Art Punk

Tracklist : 

1 The Bloody Ropes 

2 Creamy Plastic Pink Leotard 

3 Sermon From Between His Legs 

4 Smudged Lipstick 

5 Cardinal Newman 

6 Let Me See Your Woman's Bump

Toronto's Sick Lipstick fuses no wave, punk, and hints of riot grrrl into a challenging, confrontational sound. The band formed in 2001 after the likeminded Black Cat #13 disbanded; that band's singer, Lindsay Gillard, and keyboardist, Mark McLean, recruited guitarist Allan Graham and drummer Adrian to flesh out their new project's lineup. The group began recording and touring early that year, including gigs with the Swirlies, North of America, and XBXRX; despite some recording hassles that occurred that fall, and the addition of new drummer Dennis Amos, by early 2002 the band was ready to record its debut EP. Sick Lipstick came out that summer on the Sound Virus imprint. Around that time, Sick Lipstick also appeared on a split 7" with the aforementioned XBXRX and Quintron.  So, for the first post here's their debut recording, a 6-track EP from 2002.

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