Three Years on From Its Initial Release “Detroit” by Pink Milk Renders the Mysterious and Intimate Into the Massive and Epic

PinkMilk3_sm — Pink Milk, photo courtesy the artists

Originally released in 2016 the “Detroit” single by Swedish rock band Pink Milk has a kind of lo-fi quality but with the sonic architecture of something recorded live in a room capable of offering massive natural reverb like a place used for refitting ships or The TANK Center for Sonic Arts in Rangely, Colorado. At times this quality blurs the tonal lines a bit but that contributes to a sense of the song being difficult to place in a time or context. Its guitar work is sort of surf-psych, it’s atmospherics like 80s dream pop and its mist cloaked melody and echoing vocals like something out of the non-existent post-punk wing of the Siltbreeze roster and that mysterious yet intimate aesthetic that seemed part of all the artists on the imprint. Listen below and follow the band at the links provided.

FYI: For those in the area, you can catch Pink Milk at the Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg which runs September 18-21, 2019 with exact date(s) and time(s) announced closer to the event.