Split Lips, Winning Hips, A Shiner is proof that Shapes and Sizes aim to please the while not pandering. Imagine a soulful top 40 Thinking Fellers playing songs for the prom. Lyrically Split Lips is at once celebratory and derogatory; among other things, a peculiar but calculated meditation on naive nationalism and potent protest ("Victory in War, oh what a bore"). "High Life" focuses on benign habits turned scabrous, and "Alone/Alive" casts an existential strobe on freedom and dependence minus the pretension that usually comes along for that ride. Split Lip's harmonious discord is also technical: the band recorded with JC/DC Studios (Destroyer, New Pornographers, Tegan and Sara, etc.) and mixed with Asthmatic Kitty's own Rafter Roberts (Fiery Furnaces, The Rapture, The Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower) to forge a pristine decomposition. Don't try turning it down- the overdrive provides the framework for equally aggressive lyrics that combine sensuality, violence, and social critique.

1. Alone / Alive
2. Head Movin'
3. Geese
4. The Taste In My Mouth
5. Teller / Seller
6. Grassy Corner, A Sunset
7. Highlife (I Had Been Duped)
8. Can't Stop That (Sinking) Feeling
9. The Horse's Mouthy Mouth
10. The Long Indifference
11. Canvas Skies, Muslin Trees
12. Piggy
13. One, Two, Three