Frank / Little Habits

Label: Happy Release Records

Quantity Pressed: 500

Release Date: 21/1/08

Go mark this on your calendar now because a little more than a week from now this little gem is coming out on Happy Release records and you won't want to miss it.

Spilt Milk opens up with 'Frank' and great crystal clear production with slightly off, dissonant sounds, every guitar has that lazy perfectly out of tune, picked out of time sound. Gareth Milkfudge, his real name, has this layered singing half whiny vocals style which immediately sounded like the second coming of Modest Mouse. He's barely holding it together, just on the edge of screaming but he's beaten his head against the wall a little too hard. This is the old, good Modest Mouse which was immediate and raw, that weird sound, born out of necessity and imperfection.

Spilt Milk makes it clear the missed notes are on purpose and it's endearing, it's a first take, they're also injecting some good old Unicorns style fun into the track, laughing at themselves in the la, la, la chorus. It's the kind of infectiousness that keeps on reminding you of why you can't stop listening in the first place.I can't tell what the B-side might be but this joyous reminder is the fun of infinite tracks all coming together with every different guitar sound chorused and slight distortions. Vibrating strings in a real room, a miked amp a little too close.

It feel like that great undiscovered bedroom project your best friend has been recording... you knew he could do it, but this is actually going to go somewhere and you sit back for a minute and take a moment to appreciate you are just glad to know him. Don't change a thing....except maybe the name.

Jason Dean