Mylar

Praise for Mylar 

"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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London art-pop quartet Mylar announces their sophomore EP Human Statues (out 30th March via Blue Flowers) with the release of new song, “Hobby Horse”. Accompanied by another stunning visualiser featuring animation by Yasmine Tara Opre Djedje-Fisher-Azoume, Hobby Horse follows the EP’s first single “Stay Close,” which was released in late 2022.
 
“A hobby horse is both a child’s toy and a personal obsession, so it's quite a good description of the faintly ridiculous process of writing music,” Mylar says of their groove-laden new offering, which juxtaposes cascading keys with a vibrant leftfield sound.
 
“Making songs is mostly squeaking around without getting anywhere. With this song we were thinking of that image and how doing the thing you love can easily become a vice unless you maintain a healthy attitude to it. The song came out of a jack-in-the-box bossa nova piano groove. Hopefully it makes for (un)easy listening!”
 
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, and the strange and subtle contradictions inherent in being motionless for posterity.
 
“Hopefully it shows us growing as musicians, pushing towards more of a live sound that still has something uncanny and synthetic about it.”
 
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. It was released alongside “Trailblazer”, a mordant meditation on toxic charisma set to warped disco pop.
 
“Hobby Horse” and “Stay Close” build on the upbeat, polychromatic sonic environments of Elsewhere and was also produced by the band between London and Madrid. It was 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 and before that will perform at The George Tavern as part of Independent Venue Week on the 2nd Feb,