Martin Cohen of Nine Black Alps releases debut album of new project Milk Maid: ‘Yucca’, plus tour
aaamusic | On 28, Jul 2011
New Single ‘Dead Wrong’ b/w ‘I Know’
Released 19th September 2011
Suffering Jukebox/ FatCat
Cat. No. 7fat103/ ds7fat103
Listen here:
‘Dead Wrong’ http://soundcloud.com/fatcatrecords-1/milk-maid-dead-wrong-fatcat-a
‘I Know’ http://soundcloud.com/fatcatrecords-1/mlik-maid-i-know-fatcat-b-side
“Full of distortion drenched vocals and slacker guitar lines ‘Yucca’ is a brilliantly messy thing.” 8/10 NME
“Pop songs twisted with unpredictability” ****Artrocker
“Pure pop primitivism” ***Q
UK Headline Tour
16 SEPT WAKEFIELD The Hop
17 SEPT MIDDLESBOROUGH Uncle Alberts
19 SEPT CARDIFF Ten Feet Tall
20 SEPT BRIGHTON Green Dore Store
21 SEPT BRISTOL The Lousiana
22 SEPT LONDON Old Blue Last
23 SEPT MILTON KEYNES Sno! Bar
24 SEPT MANCHESTER Kraak Gallery
Supporting Mazes
03-OCT LEEDS Nation Of Shopkeepers
04-OCT MANCHESTER The Kings Arm
05-OCT EDINBURGH Sneaky Petes
06-OCT GLASGOW Captains Rest
07-OCT NEWCASTLE Dog & Parrot
08-OCT LANCASTER Library
09-OCT NOTTINGHAM Spanky Van Dykes
11-OCT OXFORD Jericho
12-OCT BIRMINGHAM The Hare & Hounds
13-OCT LONDON Lexington
14-OCT BRIGHTON The Hope
With his band Nine Black Alps on indefinite hiatus, bassist Martin Cohen found he had time on his hands, recording at home Milk Maid’s debut album ‘Yucca’. The result is an album that might have come out on Creation Records in their 80’s heyday, recalling indie stalwarts like Comet Gain and marrying timeless pop hooks to the raw spontaneity of home recording, and sweet, sun-drenched pop hooks pitched against viscerally dark lyrics.
On new single ‘Dead Wrong’ (Suffering Jukebox/ FatCat, September 19) Cohen sings ‘You’re killing yourself to cut your arms off, you’re stabbing yourself in the gut’ and manages to make it sound like a lost Buddy Holly tune – albeit with the production values of a Sic Alps track!
Jack Cooper, of fellow FatCat band Mazes, and the man behind Suffering Jukebox, summed it up when he compared Milk Maid to Guided By Voices for their “laissez faire approach to recording solid gold melodies; throwing songs away most bands would kill for.” Whilst Milk Maid wouldn’t sound out of place on the Woodsist label, ‘Yucca’ shuns the psychedelic instrumental jams of those bands in favour of pop songs with 60’s girl group melodies reminiscent of The Crystals sitting amongst Jesus And Mary Chain-like fuzz and choppy John Densmore-esque drums.
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