It’s refreshing to hear music that is simultaneously new and familiar, where the genres meld together to form a seamless blanket of sound that can take you on journeys within your mind. San Francisco based indie-rock band Milk For The Angry has created just that kind of vibe with their newly released album Extraterrestrial Desert.
Milk For The Angry, singer/guitarist Dana Lindström, drummer Cole Bailey and bassist Kyle Stringer are focused and driven young men, creating a pile of songs that embody a feeling of 60’s surf rock mixed with spacey 80’s pop and flavored with a modern edge of hard-driving rock. The band self-funded their latest release, creating an album that is wholly theirs, with lyrical content that is poetic yet yearns for deeper meaning.
“The recording of this album was actually very cozy because we worked from the ground up with our good friend and musical merman Christopher Daddio (who also lended his keys and vocal chops to a few tracks) at his home studio," says Dana Lindström. "We had the comforts of a loving home and were getting the best results we have ever had so we couldn't ask for more. This will be our second full-length album and we're excited about the direction that we are going; still maintaining our heavier psyched-out roots but getting into some spacier, soft tunes as well. We all have backgrounds in heavier music and we all see eye to eye in wanting a sound that is heavy but doesn't come off as "tough guy" or "scary." We want to keep it fun and positive because that's what we're craving more of in life and it’s a direct correlation.“
Milk For The Angry, singer/guitarist Dana Lindström, drummer Cole Bailey and bassist Kyle Stringer are focused and driven young men, creating a pile of songs that embody a feeling of 60’s surf rock mixed with spacey 80’s pop and flavored with a modern edge of hard-driving rock. The band self-funded their latest release, creating an album that is wholly theirs, with lyrical content that is poetic yet yearns for deeper meaning.
“The recording of this album was actually very cozy because we worked from the ground up with our good friend and musical merman Christopher Daddio (who also lended his keys and vocal chops to a few tracks) at his home studio," says Dana Lindström. "We had the comforts of a loving home and were getting the best results we have ever had so we couldn't ask for more. This will be our second full-length album and we're excited about the direction that we are going; still maintaining our heavier psyched-out roots but getting into some spacier, soft tunes as well. We all have backgrounds in heavier music and we all see eye to eye in wanting a sound that is heavy but doesn't come off as "tough guy" or "scary." We want to keep it fun and positive because that's what we're craving more of in life and it’s a direct correlation.“
The album starts off superbly with Aluminum Radio Flyer a super-catchy song with Lindström's guitar riffs that bounce and play like marbles in a bowl of whipped cream, with underlying lyrics that give the sense of yearning for a different reality with hope that it will be found, ”These walls, they just turn me into a lifeless ceramic doll, each one keeps illuminating a lifetime so long ago”. My Sugar is a hard-thrashing romp over that indicates a romance gone sour, Eyes On Polaris, with the haunting violin magic Sivan Lioncub of indie-band Every One Is Dirty, gives the sense of 60’s folk rock with a biting edge of modern shred. Make Waves is a languid sonic-stroll with a psychedelic vibe. The title track, Extraterrestrial Desert feels like a chaotic heavy metal journey into futuristic wack, stating “Get completely consumed by the weight of the world.” Going Underground starts as a lofty and soft joyride that then pumps out crunchy guitars while stating “Alone in my mess, alone with my thoughts. But feeling fine with it all”. In the final two tracks, the band rocks it politically. With The Wall, Cole Bailey’s drums and Kyle Stringer’s bass sound-off like gunfire in conjunction with lyrics that state “Both sides are falling down the rabbit hole”. The album ends with the hard-driving Legions that takes its content from today’s unsavory political climate.
Milk For The Angry is proud of their work, and they deserve to be, Extraterrestrial Desert is an incredible album. Their live shows are filled with vim and vigor and the energy they exude from the stage hints at a pure joy within a heavy sound. Like every band, they want to be heard, seen and felt by larger audiences, and I think they have that potential to go far.
"We want to tour with bands we love and see more of the world. Take breaks and work on a new record. Rinse and repeat until we've gone mad or can't stand each other,” says Lindström. "Making it" would be all that and not having to spend every last penny of our savings on recording and merch. It's an expensive habit!"
Check out the album!
http://milkfortheangry.bandcamp.com/album/extraterrestrial-desert-album
"We want to tour with bands we love and see more of the world. Take breaks and work on a new record. Rinse and repeat until we've gone mad or can't stand each other,” says Lindström. "Making it" would be all that and not having to spend every last penny of our savings on recording and merch. It's an expensive habit!"
Check out the album!
http://milkfortheangry.bandcamp.com/album/extraterrestrial-desert-album
 Photos of MFTA CD Release Party by William Wayland © |  |
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