Storefront Church Returns With the Unsettling Pulse of “Still Lying”

After spending the past few months releasing covers of Sisters of Mercy and Leonard Cohen, Los Angeles songwriter Lukas Frank is back in Storefront Church mode with a new original: Still Lying. It is his first new song since 2024’s underrated Ink & Oil, a record that quietly built a following among listeners who still miss the emotional weight and textural detail of late-2000s art rock.

Frank shared with Bandcamp followers that the track is taken from an upcoming EP, though he has not posted a title, release date, or tracklist yet. Even without those details, Still Lying feels like a clear pivot from the recent cover run: less reverent, more physically immediate, and intentionally abrasive in spots.

The song runs on a clipped electronic beat while jagged, almost violent guitar tones keep cutting through the mix. Frank’s voice does the most memorable work here. He jumps from near-whisper to howl, with grunts and cracked phrases that sound pushed to their limit rather than neatly performed. It is one of his most confrontational vocal takes to date, and it lands somewhere between post-punk dread and industrial pressure without flattening into genre cosplay.

For listeners who caught onto Storefront Church through songs like Tapping on the Glass, this new single keeps the project’s core tension intact: wounded songwriting delivered with maximal force. If Ink & Oil hinted at a broader palette, Still Lying suggests Frank is ready to turn that expansion into a full statement on the next EP.

Listen below.