Milk Maid // Mostly No
"The album is as abrasive as a crocodile crotch cloth." Hmm...
Release Date: 9th July 2012
Milk Maid – Mostly No (Fat Cat Records)
Ok let’s shape this review into the form of a compliment sandwich, hmm, something good, something good, erm…I like milk, milk is good. Ok, room for improvement… Mmm, is there no sound easier on the ear than feedback? Apparently not according to Martin Cohen, formerly of Nine Black Alps, frontman of Milk Maid, and the person responsible for this album being full of the shit. Recorded using a 16 track tape machine, selected because Cohen believed it meant “using your ears more when you’re not staring at a computer screen”, I can think of nothing I would want to use less than my ears, the album is as abrasive as a crocodile crotch cloth. Likened to early Jesus and Mary Chain and, just like the Scotch band’s ‘Never Understand’, sonically it’s akin to drilling holes into your skull. Apparently there are dark lyrics on the album but fucked if I can find them hidden amongst the din, even the more stripped-back tracks sound like he’s singing in an empty sewage tunnel. ‘Summertime’ actually starts well until the vocals come in, sounding like he’s singing through some tracing paper and a comb, and the ‘soloing’ throughout is more flailing around the fret board like a pissed Johnny Greenwood, but it’s ok, it’s backed with lots of feedback. Something good, something good, it only lasts half an hour? You can guarantee this is the kind of album NME would bum really hard, “preserving the values of anti-guitar yada yada”, but this alone is reason to steer well clear.
2/10 The Donkey
