Hot Milk have unveiled the details of their upcoming new album ‘Corporation P.O.P’, set for release on June 27 via Music for Nations.
Featuring brand-new track ’90 Seconds To Midnight’, the band’s second full-length was produced by their own Jim Shaw alongside Zach Jones and KJ Strock.
The album’s first single, ’90 Seconds To Midnight’ arrives alongside a wicked music video featuring comedy legend Frank Skinner.
Speaking on the track, vocalist Han Mee has shared:
“The doomsday clock is nearing midnight and this frantic song sets the mood for the oncoming nuclear winter… We wanted to punch you proper in the face with this, this balls to the wall little riffy boy comes bounding at you relentlessly. Lyrically we took inspiration from 17th century philosopher Rousseau and the poet John Betjemen with his poem ‘Slough’. Rousseau set out that humanity would never be free as we create our own shackles. In this case, we’ve created our own demise. Where as Betjemens poem takes this notion of demise and laughs at it, inviting the nukes in “come friendly bombs”…. Let’s set the gaff on fire and start again.”
And on recruiting Frank Skinner for the video, she said:
“His background with Room 101 (an Orwellian nod) and the fact he wrote Three Lions was a perfect fit for this bleak albeit tongue-in-cheek look at the state of the world from the grey filter of Salford.”
Check it out below:
Written and recorded both in their Salford flat and a live room in LA, on the Manchester band’s second album ‘Corporation P.O.P’ Jim has said:
“‘Corporation P.O.P’ is a flurry of thoughts, feelings, ramblings from the afters n questions about where we’re at right now in England, the further western world and emotionally. It is an entry from the perspective of us lot who live a dichotomy of months in faraway lands and then experience the sudden grounding of returning home to Salford. It’s hard not to compare, contrast and try to understand. P.O.P = Payment of Pain. We all must live with the burden of modernity and this pain has been commodified; we all must pay. Corporation pop itself is a term Han’s grandad used to refer to the water supply, something that runs throughout all our homes, just as current events run through us all.”
You can preorder the record right here.
Set to appear at Slam Dunk Festival this May, the band will also play some intimate UK headline shows in April.
See the full list of dates below:
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04 – La Belle Angele, Edinburgh
06 – Corporation, Sheffield
07 – Waterfront, Norwich
09 – O2 Academy 2, Oxford
10 – The Globe, Cardiff
11 – Patterns, Brighton
Have a look at the album artwork for ‘Corporation P.O.P’ below:
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