London four-piece Millpool make a triumphant statement with their new EP, “One Last Midnight." Over the course of four tracks and nearly fourteen minutes of fervency, the band erases any lines between post-rock, jazz-punk, and the raw nerve dream alternative.
As soon as the first chords of “The Wind” reach your ears, it’s a tempest of bombastic bass, freeform drum fills, and strident blasts from those horny bastards that reek of the kind of carnal kineticism they invoke on stage. And on the title track “One Last Midnight”, it’s the closest we can get to accessing what Millpool are all about, apoplectic rage in a cathartic punch. The concluding track, “Solstice,” pulls it all back together in a breath of release, a sense of calm following the storm.
The thing that separates Millpool is absolute balls. What it does is channel the complex grooves of Slint, the deep-woods sax-driven mania of Shabaka Hutchings, and the raw emotion of Fugazi, while remaining entirely itself. With spoken word segments and instrumental exploration directing the experience, “One Last Midnight” is a late-night examination of sound and soul.
With London's alt-rock scene going from strength to strength, Millpool are one of its most unpredictable acts, and “One Last Midnight” is a great argument for why you need to hear them right now.
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