Portsmouth, NH’s Dog Lips have released their new full length, Danger Forward, via Strange Mono Records, the album features nine tightly wound songs of raw energy, B-movie delirium and no-bullshit intent. On this recording, Dog Lips carve out a sound that hits like a brick and leaves behind a smear of static. Their second full-length captures the band at their most lean and immediate, fusing punk urgency, hard rock bravado and twitchy new wave dissonance into something loud, fast, and entirely their own. Recorded in just three days at Big Nice Studio in Rhode Island with producer Bradford Krieger, Danger Forward was designed to capture Dog Lips at their most combustible.

The sessions were quick, volatile, and stripped of excess, resulting in tracks that sound barely held together, driven more by instinct than precision. That urgency bleeds into the album’s atmosphere, thick with themes of modern anxiety and absurdity, delivered without a second take. The guitars cut sharp, the drums crash like demolition, and the shared vocals feel urgent, confrontational and just a little unhinged. Referencing the surreal grind of office life, forgotten wars and B-movie chaos, Dog Lips lean hard into jagged storytelling and Pub-Rock punch. Whether in basements, dive bars, or late-night sweatboxes, they’ve made noise a tool for connection, and chaos a method. Dog Lips are currently on tour in North America in support of Danger Forward.

“We wrote these songs in a frenzy of a self-created deadline. Fueled by the sound of a thousand hungry clocks, we followed the instincts of our collaborative songwriting and left no time to overthink. Our goal with this record was to create a no-nonsense new-wave tinged rock n roll album (nine big ones) that capture the haze of workplace boredom, forgotten wars, B-movie plots, and angry landlords. If you listen closely to ‘Voicemail Bomb Threat,’ you can hear one particularly ominous message left on Tim’s phone by our landlord. This record is a no-frills display of Dog Lips pub-rocking punch and our first proper shot in the studio.” 

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