MLEKO – Tom’s Tune
Manchester seven-piece MLEKO are back after “Gub Rock” landed here in Week 42 last year — the debut single that gave a name to their genre-defying sound because nobody in the band could agree on what to call it. Now they’ve announced their debut EP Feast of St Perpetua, out May 1st on Heist or Hit, with “Tom’s Tune” as the first preview.
Seven minutes of it. The band put it best: “Tom’s Tune is our best shot at encapsulating the Mleko spectrum. We are sorry that it took 7 minutes and some choral wailing to do that”. No need to apologize. The track opens with that anxious feeling: “like wet gunpowder I fail to ignite” and “like Mancunian rain, yes you cling to my skin” delivered with the same calm-before-the-storm precision we heard on “Gub Rock”. Then it builds, panics, surrenders, and rebuilds again.
The lyrics cycle through vulnerability and frustration. “I’m tired, and I’ve tried to hide it / all these parts of myself that I’m fighting” gives way to “I’d change my clothes and I’d change my hair and I would change just about anything to get on TV”. By the end, the track lands somewhere between exhaustion and defiance — “I reverberate around in echo chambers now / such a perforated sound / I’m full of holes”. Post-rock, art rock, brass-driven whatever-this-is. Gub Rock, basically.
Tracklist:
- Denouement
- Lego Sex
- Gub Rock
- As It Goes
- Tom’s Tune
