MIEN, an electro/psych powerhouse featuring Alex Maas (The Black Angels), Rishi Dhir (Elephant Stone), John-Mark Lapham (The Earlies) and Robb Kidd (Golden Dawn Arkestra), recently announced their first music since 2018. The band’s sophomore release, MIIEN, arrives April 18 on Fuzz Club.
The excitement of the album announcement pairs well with the lysergic energy of lead single, ‘Evil People’. The track finds Maas’ distinctive vocals enlisted in service of a quickstep, motorik tubeway army, briefly dissolving on an ambient drift, before reassembling for the final push. It’s gloriously giddy – Clinic for the club, the lyrical mantra ‘you and I/we belong together/you and I/we go back and forth’ floating like lights in a fog.
Sayeth the band: “‘Evil People’ has its roots in a 2015 collaboration between Alex and awesome Danish musician Trentemøller. Fast forward to March 2022, when MIEN reunited in Austin for three intense days of recording during SXSW. Given how rare it is for all of us to be in the same room at the same time, the creative energy was electric—music and ideas flowed effortlessly, and ‘Evil People’ was born.”
MIIEN arrives April 18, courtesy of Fuzz Club, and is available for pre-order here:
(EU/UK) – https://fuzzclub.com/collections/mien/products/mien-miien
(US) – https://fuzzclub.us/collections/mien
[Catch a special, ‘Levitation Edition’, here: https://levitation.fm/products/mein-meiin-levitation-edition?_kx=6axDALsZJOVRv-WW9z0G0YdP2hbZCjHtSuiXiEsEwos.XP2nn6 ]
Check the appropriately dizzying vid for ‘Evil People’ here: https://youtu.be/jjGfeLHQp2A?si=sr-y0E344lpkzh_X
MIEN play a show February 7 at The 13th Floor in Austin (tickets), and are then due to play gigs in EU/UK, nestled around an appearance at this year’s Fuzz Club Fest – dates and ticket links here:
While your at it, check out what else the good people at Fuzz Club have to offer, here:
https://fuzzclub.com/ (EU/UK); https://fuzzclub.us/ (US); https://sound-merch.com.au/collections/fuzz-club?srsltid=AfmBOoojVRbLwKv-SBDplM58bPcL_7MBPBVBGuxgP2taVS2lY7VUsDSi (AUS)
Folllooowww MIEN…
