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Mylar
Mylar
country: UK
genre: Alternative
styles: Synthpop, Art Pop
Ghost Of The Party
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Reviews and Comments
"a self-awareness and emotional honesty that feels truly specific to them" - Notion
"equal parts direct and surreal, arresting and mystifying" - Clash
"dreamy" - Brooklyn Vegan
"Sweet-toothed, melancholic pop" - The New Cue
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Today London art-pop quartet Mylar share a third track “Ghost Of The Party” from their sophomore EP Human Statues which was announced last month.
The woozy 2000s-pop flavoured “Ghost Of The Party” follows “Hobby Horse” and “Stay Close” with the EP due out on the 30th March via Blue Flowers.
The track “starts out as an anti-party song, inspired by the ‘they don’t know I’m…’meme. The narrator wonders why do I feel like a ghost here, why can’t I just have a good time?” explain the band.
“The arc of the song is basically realising these worries are yours alone and don’t reflect what other people think. You just need to let go in spite of yourself and listen to some triumphant 4x4 beats. Musically we were inspired by all those summery guitar parts and twinkly keys you heard in UK garage and Neptunes tracks growing up, that people still love. Maybe that's because of nostalgia for a simpler time. It's joyful, but there’s an underlying melancholy to it which seems to always be the case with big party songs.”
The EP Human Statues was inspired by an incident after a gig in Portsmouth when someone asked the band “why are you all so tall, are you Dutch?” It’s also a reference to living statues, characters in the songs who seem removed from society but are also seeking our attention.“Hopefully it shows us growing as musicians, pushing towards more of a live sound that still has something uncanny and synthetic about it” the band say.
Mylar dropped “Plastic Champ” in early 2022—an exemplary breakout single satirising the fragility of inherited forms of masculinity—before releasing debut EP Elsewhere that April. Their music drew early praise from Notion, Clash, Brooklyn Vegan, The New Cue, The Independent, The Sunday Times, The Line of Best Fit, Disco Naïveté and many others.
Mylar’s first EP for the acclaimed London label Blue Flowers (Elsewhere) explored the universality of vulnerability and feelings of being trapped by the relentless flow of time or circumstances.
Both EPs were mixed in Spain by Iñaki de las Cuevas.
Mylar is made up of Tom Clark (guitar, synth), Rob Janke (drums, backing vocals) Neraj Thangarajah (guitar, keys, vocals) and Tom Short (keys, bass, vocals).
The band will headline London’s Shacklewell Arms on the day of the EP release, the 30th March.
latest releases
EP
Lost in the Shuffle
out on April 16, 2024
Single
A Man Will Make
out on March 20, 2024
Single
Scribbled Sunset
out on February 09, 2024
EP
Human Statues
out on March 30, 2023
via Blue Flowers Music
Single
Hobby Horse
out on February 01, 2023
via Blue Flowers Music
Single
Stay Close
out on November 16, 2022
via Blue Flowers Music
