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Mylar

city: West London
country: UK
genre: Alternative
styles: Synthpop, Art Pop

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credits: Lisa Melkumov

label
Blue Flowers Music

Human Statues

out on March 30, 2023

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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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Today London art-pop outfit Mylar release their sophomore EP Human Statues along with a video for their yet unpreviewed song “Dark”.

Inspired by the feeling of calm when driving through empty streets at night, the band hones in on the internal conversations with yourself that can spiral out of control and make you feel like you’re running circles.

“That sense of disillusionment can make you feel so removed from your surroundings that you feel like you’ve deserted everyone” the band explain.

“The lyric ‘drive me away in the dark’ is craving that night time calm, with the chorus acting as a reminder that if you keep on trucking, in the process things get better. The transition from the choppy sax and piano to the wash of the reverby guitars in the chorus hopefully symbolises that change.”

It follows the woozy 2000s-pop flavoured “Ghost Of The Party”, “Hobby Horse” and “Stay Close”.

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.

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 (Fresh Face), Clash, Brooklyn Vegan, The New Cue, The Independent, The Sunday Times (Breaking Act), 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).

Mylar headline London’s Shacklewell Arms tonight, the day of the EP release, the 30th March and also play the following shows below. Human Statues EP is out now on Blue Flowers (Nilüfer Yanya, Westerman, Puma Blue, piglet).