Hot Milk New Single/video for 'Bloodstream'
Manchester, UK - HOT MILK have released the third single to precede their debut album.
On the surface, 'BLOODSTREAM' boasts all of the usual masterful pop-rock veneer, stadium-filling melodic ambition, and musicality full of the impish spark the band have long since honed. But here is also a despairing love song, one that’s lyrical soul searching delves to the depths in order to understand the feeling of connection so strong it can come as a detriment.
Lead singer Han Mee explains the song came to them, instead of being chased down through long hours in a studio and was written “in its entirety in the haunted early hours in Los Angeles. We started it in the early hours just as it was home time... immediately we knew that this song was something different for us yet had come from nowhere. One of them rare moments where the song jumped from the ether and wanted, nay needed to be written”.
That feeling of necessity, a song almost undeniable and inescapable, mirrors the feelings of unhealthy adoration, themes of chasing short-term thrills and how those situations can lead to self-loathing, and as Han puts it “unhealthy adoration comes in many forms, the short term thrill for the post-high collapse can create an abusive relationship. You think it's love, you think you're in control, you think you can say no if you needed to but you're not the one in the driving seat anymore.”
BLOODSTREAM premiered on Clara Amfo's Radio 1 show and you can stream it HERE
HOT MILK will embark on their own headline tour this Autumn. The tour will take in six shows across the UK including the O2 Kentish Town Forum, London for their biggest headline show to date. Support comes from Witch Fever and Modern Error.
HOT MILK- HEADLINE TOUR
18 November 2023 - SWG3 Warehouse, Glasgow
19 November 2023 - Rescue Rooms, Nottingham (SOLD OUT)
21 November 2023 - The Trinity Centre, Bristol
22 November 2023 - O2 Kentish Town Forum, London
24 November 2023 - O2 Institute 2, Birmingham
25 November 2023 - Manchester Academy, Manchester
For some, it might feel like a long time coming but Hot Milk always knew that when the time came to make their debut album, they had to be ready for it. It will be their loudest statement yet of who they are and what they stand for, an opportunity to show the world what they are made of.
Tracks on the debut album walk on a tightrope between the humorous and the serious, brimming with what might be called positive nihilism. They’re not so much finding the light in the dark as they are laughing because if they don’t, they’ll cry.
‘HORROR SHOW’, boisterously ushered in a new era of Hot Milk, one that is bolder, brasher, and more impactful than ever before. Premiering on Radio 1’s FUTURE ARTIST show Jack Saunders commented that “The odds are pitted against this band, it’s not often a traditional emo breaks through, but Hot Milk have fought the whole entire way to make their mark, find their way into your top tens, become a favourite for you, and Horror Show’s the best yet.” Whilst second single, 'PARTY ON MY DEATHBED' went on the C list at Radio 1.
The band have blossomed over the course of three self-produced EPs, this constant stream of releases has meant that Hot Milk were never away from the spotlight – or the stages they call home. Their rise kept accelerating, taking them to stadium support slots with Foo Fighters, the main stages of some of the best festivals Globally, an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel in the US to tours with bands like Pale Waves and their own headline sold-out shows to over 50 million streams of the EPs alone. Crucially, however, they were giving themselves space to find themselves as artists.
The band recorded the album between Manchester, Los Angeles and Stockholm with the bands very own Jim Shaw at the Producing helm for the majority of the record, much like all previous releases. An element that has become so important to the band and allowing them to control just exactly what they want to be as artists.
A CALL TO THE VOID is the English translation of the French phrase l’appel du vide, referring to the brain’s trick of spotting opportunities to die. It’s the eerie jolt that is felt when you stand waiting for a train and the thought that you could jump, and end your life in a heartbeat, intrudes in your head. It’s that brief moment of being reminded of the fragility of existence.
A CALL TO THE VOID - album tracklisting
WELCOME TO THE…
HORROR SHOW
BLOODSTREAM
PARTY ON MY DEATHBED
ALICE COOPER’S POOL HOUSE
ZONED OUT
OVER YOUR DEAD BODY
MIGRAINE
BREATHING UNDERWATER
AMPHETAMINE (Feat. Julian Comeau of Loveless)
FORGET ME NOT
Hot Milk recently finished a tour of South America and played various festivals this Summer ahead of the headline run, including Download and will be at Pride in Brighton and Reading + Leeds festivals.
Remaining Summer shows:
20th July 2023- Deichbrand Festival, Cuxhaven, Germany
22nd July 2023- Lollapalooza Paris, France
4th August 2023- Pride Rock at Patterns, Brighton
25 August 2023 - Leeds Festival, Leeds UK
27 August 2023 - Reading Festival, Reading UK
W/ Foo Fighters 2023
4th December 2023 AAMI Park, Melbourne, Australia
9th December 2023 Accor Stadium, Sydney Australia
12th December 2023 Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane Australia
W/ Foo Fighters 2024
22nd June 2024 - London Stadium, London
27th June 2024 - Villa Park Birmingham
With A CALL TO THE VOID, Hot Milk will launch themselves into the upper echelons of the British rock scene.
A CALL TO THE VOID will be released on 25th August 2023 on Music For Nations.
Pre-order the album HERE
