Fightmilk Reveal Official Video For Thirsty New Single ‘Yearning and Pining’ out now via Fika Recordings + INH Records
Fightmilk Reveal Official Video For Thirsty New Single ‘Yearning and Pining’
Released 15th October via Fika Recordings + INH Records
Watch the video - https://youtu.be/aNAxE2AwLrI
Stream and share - https://li.sten.to/fightmilk-yearning-and-pining
New Album No Souvenirs Released 15th November 2024
Preorder - https://fightmilkisaband.bandcamp.com/album/no-souvenirs
London Album Launch Show SOLD OUT + November 2024 UK Live Dates On Sale Now
Tickets - https://linktr.ee/Fightmilk
DIY power pop quartet Fightmilk are back with a fourth and final single from their upcoming third album No Souvenirs, to be marked with a SOLD OUT headline show at London’s Paper Dress Vintage on 15th November 2024 with a run of November 2024 UK tour dates to follow on sale now (see below for listings).
‘Yearning And Pining’ is the latest track from the forthcoming album, and is out now on all good streaming services and digital service providers.
A riotous combination of riffage, pop hooks, angst, heartfelt emotions, wit, and wisdom crashed out with infectious, gleeful abandon, No Souvenirs is set for release on 15th November 2024 via Fika Recordings (Mammoth Penguins, Fortitude Valley) and new kids on the block INH Records.
Three years in the making, the 12-track album is available to pre-order now from: https://fightmilkisaband.bandcamp.com/album/no-souvenirs
Accompanied by an inventive DIY official music video shot entirely on a Ring doorbell camera, the new single is a tongue-in-cheek love song about the universal experience of having the hots for your crush; how awesomely painful it is being infatuated with someone, and how that unreciprocated lust can quickly lose its magic.
Commenting on the track, front woman Lily Rae says: “Yearning & Pining is a two-minute country-punk biscuit about having the cosmic horn for someone. Being so lusty that you give yourself an asthma attack. We've all been lost in the sauce of an all-encompassing crush, and this song is for those currently drowning in it.”
Recorded at Dean Street Studios in Soho, London over several manic weekends in 2022/23, No Souvenirs was produced by Keith TOTP, engineered by Sam Hogg and Tom Quigley, and mixed and mastered by Adrian Hall.
Spilling over with candid lyrics about death, doomed love, and dog bites, framed by endless punk energy and the kind of full-throated riff-rock that sounds just at home in a giant stadium as it does in a sticky-floored toilet bar, No Souvenirs is a triumphant return from the band, who are equally enthused by the album.
“It’s easily our best one yet,” says Lily of the record. “I want every track on it to be a Sunfly Karaoke song one day. It’s a big growly, grungy album with a healthy amount of yelling - but there’s lots of humour in it, too. Ideally it’s played very loudly with the bass turned up, three beers deep, and singing along to all the choruses.”
With international acclaim from the likes of STEREOGUM, Kerrang! Magazine, The Quietus, DIY Magazine, Brooklyn Vegan and The Line Of Best Fit already under their belts, and having sold out headline gigs across the UK, in addition to sharing stages with bands such as Art Brut, Yawners and Problem Patterns, Fightmilk look set to build on their reputation as one of the DIY scene’s best loved bands in the run-up to their much-anticipated third album.
New album ‘No Souvenirs’ will be released 15th November 2024 via Fika Recordings/INH Records
Live Dates:
15.11.24 - London - Paper Dress Vintage (album release show) SOLD OUT
16.11.24 - Cambridge - Indie Pop All Dayer SOLD OUT
22.11.24 - Rainham (Kent) - The Oast (w/ Jetstream Pony)
27.11.24 - Sheffield - Sydney & Matilda (w/ Slash Fiction)
28.11.24 - Glasgow - Stereo (w/ Slime City)
29.11.24 - Manchester - The Castle Hotel (w/ New Starts)
01.02.25 - London - Strongroom - INH Records label launch show (w/ Coming Up Roses)
No Souvenirs album tracklist:
1. Summer Bodies
2. That Thing You Did
3. Canines
4. Back from Tour
5. Yearning and Pining
6. Banger #7
7. No Souvenirs
8. Inferno
9. My Best Me
10. Eating For Two
11. Paddling Pool
12. 30
Fightmilk are:
Lily (she/her): vocals, guitar
Alex (he/him): guitar, vocals
Healey (they/them): bass, vocals
Nick (he/him): drums, vocals
Fightmilk online:
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Instagram
YouTube
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Fightmilk was formed in 2015 in a Brixton pub garden by Lily and Alex, who had both, separately, just been dumped and thought being in an angry punk band would cheer them up. Then they found Nick and Healey to hold the rhythm down and make them sound good. With three albums under their belt, they’ve perfected their chaotic, melodic brand of joy and rage-filled pop with full-throated yelling and sparkling guitar riffs as their trademark. They’ve graduated from angsty whippersnappers in their mid-twenties to overgrown teenage 30-somethings with mild ongoing back pain.
The band quickly drew attention with their debut album Not With That Attitude (Reckless Yes, 2018) - singled out by Drowned In Sound for its “package of massive, Godzilla-heft hooks”. Gaining support from 6Music and Radio X, the band swiftly hopped in the van to play shows with the likes of Art Brut, Desperate Journalist and Nova Twins, as well as touring Germany.
Not letting a seismic global clusterf*ck stand in their way, the band released their second LP Contender in 2021 via Reckless Yes. Described as “a joyous riot from start to finish” by Kerrang! Magazine, it was an album with something to prove, adding stacked harmonies, analog drum machines and even heftier riffs to the band’s arsenal, while still remaining decidedly true to the band’s spiky indiepop sound. As soon as they were released from lockdown they began a near relentless gigging schedule, taking in multiple trips around the UK, support slots with Johnny Foreigner, mclusky and Problem Patterns, plus a sold-out 2022 headline slot at Norway’s Indiefjord Festival, where a sweat-soaked Fightmilk crowd-surfed their way offstage at midnight only to find it was still light outside.
The band’s eighth year in action has seen them writing and recording their third album, to be released in late 2024 on Fika Recordings and INH Records. Fightmilk have turned the distortion up and the indiepop down with rougher and rawer songs about body image, death, and being fired from bridesmaid duty.
