Milly, Squib, Head Stone
December 7, 2022 @ 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM • $12.00 – $14.00
Originally formed in Connecticut and now based in Los Angeles, Milly signed to Dangerbird Records in 2019 and quickly set off on a tour with Swervedriver & DIIV before they released their acclaimed EP Wish Goes On in 2021. To understand their release Eternal Ring, you have to go back to lead Brendan Dyer’s childhood. Learning guitar and drums from his uncle, Dyer was one of the only young people in his rural Connecticut town interested in anything other than sports and other stereotypical markers of American life. Naturally, Dyer began to gravitate towards emo — the closest thing many teens have to outsider art — as an art form he could identify with, bands like Hawthorne Heights subconsciously laying the groundwork for the music he would make as an adult. The Milly of Eternal Ring, though, is a vastly different project from the one Dyer began in his childhood bedroom. Where the band’s old songs were dazed and gorgeously laconic, this record is muscular, punchy, almost alarmingly direct. You only need to hear album opener and debut single “Illuminate” to understand the change: slipping quickly from emo balladry into something heavy and intoxicatingly intense, it’s a clear marker that this is the work of a tighter, more dynamic Milly. There is no slack to these songs — even the nine-minute “Stuck In The Middle” is an impossibly taut endurance work, jumping from emotive build to gut-wrenching squall in a second.
Local support Head Stone and Squib.
$12 ADV / $14 DOS
Doors at 7PM / Music at 7:30PM
Always All Ages
