Milk Maid<\/strong><\/p>\nMilk Maid emerged from the Manchester music scene, and consists of Adam Carless, Ian Hodson, and songwriter Martin Cohen \u2013 ex-bassist of Nine Black Alps. A DIY aesthetic has been a key component in the band\u2019s ethos, with Cohen writing and recording everything in his flat.<\/p>\n
Riding their own wave in the re-emergence of the Manchester music scene, Milk Maid has with their effortless creativity and swirling melodies created a significant buzz \u2013 appearing with such bands as Wild Nothing, label-mates Mazes, Titus Andronicus, Crocodiles and Male Bonding. Sessions at the BBC with Marc Riley and at Maida Vale with Huw Stephens has solidified Milk Maid\u2019s status as one of the bands to look out for in 2011.<\/p>\n
Milk Maid was first picked up by Mazes member Jack Cooper\u2019s label Suffering Jukebox, and released the 7\u201d \u2018Such Fun\/Can\u2019t You See\u2019 in 2010. The single is an example of their seamless blend of laid back guitar and heavily distorted vocals. Suffering Jukebox summed it up in the press release when they compared Milk Maid to Guided By Voices for their \u201claissez faire approach to recording solid gold melodies; throwing songs away most bands would kill for with a swooning arrogance.\u201d It is this element that has seen Cohen branded with the \u2018slacker\u2019 tag and compared to artists such as Kurt Vile and Woods.<\/p>\n
The band was signed onto Fatcat Records early 2011, with their debut album \u2018Yucca\u2019 being released on the 20th of June. \u2018Yucca\u2019s meshing of light and dark could sound forced in less capable hands, but the calm authority that Cohen wields over his songs is remarkable considering that the tracks contained on \u2018Yucca\u2019 represent his first forays in to song writing. Recorded in Cohen\u2019s own flat, when the indefinite hiatus of Nine Black Alps meant the bassist found he had time on his hands, \u2018Yucca\u2019 is the sound of an artist moving out of the shadows of the rhythm section and delighting in the freedom of doing things his way. Timeless, sweet and sun-drenched pop hooks are pitched against viscerally dark lyrics that explore disintegrating relationships and emotional conflict to a backdrop of Cohen\u2019s Manchester hometown. Indeed Cohen\u2019s willingness to push the boundaries of what would usually be found in a three minute pop song with his lyrics, instrumentation and production is perhaps \u2018Yucca\u2019s defining feature. Considering how new Cohen is to production and song writing, it is exciting to think about the possibilities of where Milk Maid can go next.<\/p>\n
An intense live act, Milk Maid will be touring extensively in support of the upcoming album.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Martin Cohen must be like one of those people you’re always a little weary of introducing to other people: “Sure, he used to be car thief, and a Christian, but he’s… better now.” Marty (bet he loves being called that) was formerly in Nine Black Alps, but don’t let that put you off: whereas that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":13369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[458],"tags":[476,469,2142,2145,1108,2141,1958,2143,1942,2144,1332,1262,1276],"class_list":["post-13367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-preview","tag-bristol","tag-cardiff","tag-fear-of-fiction","tag-holy-stain","tag-louisiana","tag-milk-maid","tag-my-pet-monster","tag-spectres","tag-spillers-records","tag-towns","tag-undertone","tag-yaje","tag-zoo-pop"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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