MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
Album reviews with Mik Sabiers
New releases from Hot Milk, Prince and the Revolution and Pales Waves
New releases from Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, Odette Michell, Clementine Lovell
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America
Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet
GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
Hot Milk
The King and Queen of Gasoline
(Music for Nations)
★★★
KNOWN for stand out single California Burning — a rally cry against greed and the ruling class — emo power pop duo Hot Milk, consisting of Han Mee and Jim Shaw, have released their latest call to the disaffected youth of today.
This six-track EP — The King and Queen of Gasoline — comes across as a mini concept album telling a tale of tearaways fighting the system and creating a movement of their own.
The twin vocals play off one another with a rock guitar driven soundtrack that occasionally segues into melodic emo a la early Pale Waves or The 1975 with a bit of Yungblud attitude mixed in.
This album could do with a bit more of the fire of the band’s live set, but it’s accomplished emo power pop with some interesting twists that surprise and sooth the listener as well as shout directly to the soul.
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