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Toronto’s Wine Lips return with “Projector,” the first single from their newly announced fifth album TV Dinner, arriving August 28 on Stomp Records. Drawing from the blown-out spirit of ’90s garage punk while retaining the psychedelic chaos that has become the band’s calling card, “Projector” channels the urgency of Teengenerate, The Hives, New Bomb Turks, Frankie and the Witch Fingers, and Osees into a sharp blast of scorched guitars, pounding drums, and razor-wire attitude. The single also marks the first lead vocal appearance from drummer Aurora Evans, offering an electrifying introduction to the next chapter of one of modern rock’s most relentless bands.
“Projector” wastes no time making its intentions clear. Driven by Evans’ commanding vocal performance, the track takes aim at the kind of person who projects their insecurities, frustrations, and baggage onto everyone around them. Every sneering lyric lands with purpose while the band barrels forward behind her in a glorious racket of overdriven guitars and barely contained momentum. It’s direct, cathartic, and impossible to ignore. The song offers the first glimpse into TV Dinner, a thirteen-track collection shaped by the absurdities of contemporary life. Across the album, Wine Lips tackle burnout, addiction, doomscrolling, dead-end jobs, housing frustrations, and the low-grade anxiety humming beneath modern existence like fluorescent lights in a suburban strip mall. Rather than wallow in any of it, the band responds the only way they know how: louder, faster, and with zero interest in cleaning up the mess.
Recorded with longtime collaborator Simon Larochette at The Sugar Shack in London, Ontario, TV Dinner captures Wine Lips at their most immediate and instinctive. Embracing imperfections and leaving room for mistakes, strange moments, and happy accidents, the band deliberately resisted polishing away the record’s rough edges. The result is a collection of songs that feels alive, unpredictable, and wired directly to the energy that has made Wine Lips such a formidable live act, an energy they'll carry back onto international highways this fall with a tour supporting Death From Above 1979 and another European run already on the horizon.
If previous Wine Lips records often felt like psychedelic escapes from reality, TV Dinner keeps its feet planted firmly on the cracked pavement outside. It’s a record built for an era of glowing phone screens, rising rents, information overload, and endless noise. “Projector” is the opening shot. Loud, urgent, and impossible to ignore.Warm up the microwave. TV Dinner is almost ready.
