Milk Music

Hey, no thread on these guys yet. I think they're great, but then, I've worn out all my Volcano Suns records. Their self-released EP already going for stupid money (which sucks, because I neglected to nab a copy when I could) but the debut is due on Fat Possum in April. Pretty media-untrained, too, which is refreshing (see Pitchfork interview, in which they're sorta ((unfairly and wrongly)) critical of Sonic Youth, SST and Sub Pop). What says ILM?

not into them but this youtube rules

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGOfaRXi3Jc

love the beyond living EP a lot

yeah the EP rules, and Jimmywine, I bought it direct from Perennial Death just a couple months ago. emailed 'em and the guy wrote back, told me how much ($15, I think, maybe even $10) and said "hurry, i'm about out of them" ... worth a try, maybe.

Thanks, alpine! Will give that a try right now...

Beyond Living is great. I didn't love the one song I heard from the new record quite so much. Seemed a little less ferocious.

new record is considerable less ferocious, but gorgeous and every bit as personal/homemade-sounding, maybe moreso. still sounds like something that would & should have come out somewhere between 85 and 87, but maybe on homestead or restless instead of SST this time around. fucking loving it. fuzzy, stoned, awkward, youthfully desperate and almost heartbreaking. melodies occasionally reminiscent of verlaine or eno (esp on "the final scene").

love this band. just bought this, waiting for it to arrive

listened to it a bunch today while driving around. also hearing greg sage in the guitar tone, eric's trip in the fuzz & angst. vocals are mixed a bit high for my taste, but it's a minor quibble. great record.

Huh. After a few listens, I don't like it nearly as much as the EP. Must give it more time.

I listened to this in the car this afternoon, too. Really digging it so far. Love the guitar tones (def hear some Wipers there) and the negative lyrical slant. The wailing vocals kinda remind me of Dead Moon and a band called Crackerbash from the 90's.

like them. they sound like The Men which sounds like Dino jr, Replacements etc.. and they have a great singer.
u hope they will develop and not get ruined like the men of The Men.

also. they should do a side project called Meat Music, that will play twee style.

pretty cool that it made me put on living all over you

now they will sign to Matador, and all the fans will backlash against their next record, no matter how how he would sound like

i think most of their fans know their influence. any said backlash would be pretty dumb.

down only with the most brilliant backlash

pen jelly review is great & otm

I saw Milk Music open for Merchandise in Brooklyn last week. worst live band I have seen in a long-ass time. just insanely boring. the fact that these guys get mentioned in the same breath as Dino Jr. and Husker Du is nuts.

I usually wouldn't search out a thread to revive just to take potshots but they have a fair amount of hype (enough that I wanted to make sure I got to the show early enough to see them) and they were baaaaad.

Bummer. I like the record. The live on WFMU recording I have as well doesn't seem to suggest what you're saying either. A stage presence thing?

I thought they were decent sounding but had absolutely zero stage presence. Merchandise blew them off the stage though, both in sound and swagger. Milk Music definitely didn't benefit from the comparisons.

A stage presence thing?

Yeah, what EZ Snappin said. Also some of the songs they played just seemed to trudge along undifferentiated for ten minutes. You can kind of hear the seed of what they think is a Neil Young or Built to Spill epic or something but it didn't have nearly enough guitar pyrotechnics or personality to keep my interest.

And I've listened to their new album once or twice and didn't really remember it having a buncha long jams

sad, but maybe they're just getting their legs. like the record enough not to care, tbh.

Yeah they should be two separate points. Not everyone is fit to "perform".

They've changed their name to Mystic 100's, which (somewhat confusingly) was the title of their previous Milk Music album. New one is nicely fried, with some very long jams, vocals now reminding me of Verlaine more than anyone. Nice piece on it last week by Toth (Wooden Wand) over at Aquarium Drunkard.

Informercial.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNXxrG_qmf8

I like far out music better than I like alternative rock/pop/grunge but I like the early Dinosaur Jr/SST sounding days of Milk Music better than the forced acid trip vibes of where they’re at now.

I never heard Milk Music before, tbh, but I am loving the hell out of the Mytic 100s record, right up my alley.

Not heard the new one, but the revive made me put on «Cruise Your Illusion» for the first time in about seven years

am just discovering the new one. kind of gives me a wet tuna vibe. i've never heard the previous stuff. is it all super fried weird psych jams?

Their earliest stuff is catchy Big Muff scuzz rock, Dinosaur/Mudhoney style and it rules.

gotcha

Their new "double live" LP playing in the record store the other day readjusted my noggin'. Favourite new (old) band!

i wonder if we could get a mod to add "(Mystic 100's)" to the name of this thread

hadn't heard of these guys, on a micro diet sounds great

I really liked Macro Diet, but haven’t heard this one yet. Largely because they don’t seem all that interested in being heard? I get limited pressings and all, but this new one is literally only 500 vinyl copies, no digital, no streaming.

I really don’t understand it.

Value in scarcity. Gotta want it to get it, and it's really really really good and worth getting!

I get the vinyl scarcity, but you are also choosing to top off your listener count off at 500 and maybe their friends.

Seems like you’d want to reach more with a scarce vinyl option and also get others on via a digital option.

spend the week listening to all the live mystic 100's footage on youtube and by the time you're done, your record will have arrived in the mail

Actually, one of the things I love about this band is how not media trained they are. I'm sure this interview will be off-putting to some, but I think it's a hoot:

https://www.theselfportraitgospel.com/interviews/alexander-coxen-milk-musicmystic-100s-interview

A song like “Pay Me” really deserves to be an eight minute long brooding anthem like “Almost Cut My Hair”, but its so good that it makes my hands shake and terrifies me to think of losing power by extending to far, so we wrap it up air tight as a minute and a half long haiku. Same with “Caged Dogs Run Wild”. Thats originally a full song twice as fast with great lyrics and everything, but we couldn’t handle that songs power yet and had to reduce it to a form we could pull off while retaining the power it demands.

Can't imagine what would possibly be off putting about that thankfully. Love to hear someone in it for the love of the game. Always comes through in the music

nice. friend of mine did the (live) recording.

not into them but this youtube rules

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGOfaRXi3Jc

― flopson, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 17:46 (twelve years ago) bookmarkflaglink

me otm, this rocks