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Mylar
Mylar
country: UK
genre: Alternative
styles: Synthpop, Art Pop
Trailblazer
Single
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 quartet Mylar share a third single ahead of their debut EP Elsewhere which comes out this Friday 8 April via Blue Flowers (Westerman, Nilüfer Yanya, Puma Blue)
The new video for “Trailblazer” is directed by Irene Calvo with the song built around an instinctive, sinister, walking bass line.
The band explain, “It made us think how easy and seductive it can be to follow people blindly. People who are extremely charismatic and who make you feel good by association yet aren’t necessarily very good. The song addresses someone in the wake of realising that you’ve been led on, while wondering if they still have a grip on you. The production has a kind of warped 2000s disco-pop vibe which felt apt as that was a period that seems innocent by today’s standards.”
“Trailblazer” follows “Blue Afternoon”, and February’s debut single, “Plastic Champ”, a song with a Beatrix Blaise video that examines masculinity’s unwritten rule to always keep up appearances: fake it till you make it.
Early praise for the EP has come from Notion, Clash, Brooklyn Vegan, The New Cue, The Independent, The Line of Best Fit, Disco Naïveté and much more.
Mylar’s Elsewhere EP explores the universal vulnerabilities of their internal selves and those around them, surrounded by a world spinning at a different rate.
“Most of the lyrics are about people feeling trapped by circumstance, or having a sense of time running away, or pivotal moments where you’re hyper-aware of the direction things will take,” the band explain.
Elsewhere EP was recorded and produced by Mylar in London and was mixed and mastered in Spain by Iñaki de las Cuevas and Julío Rodríguez Sangrador respectively.
“Trailblazer” is out today with Elsewhere EP to follow this week on the 8 April via Blue Flowers.
Mylar are made up of Tom Clark (guitar, synth), Rob Janke (drums, backing vocals) Neraj Thangarajah (guitar, keys, vocals) and Tom Short (keys, bass, vocals).
After finishing a four-week residency at Laylow earlier in the year the band have recently announced their EP launch at The Waiting Room in Stoke Newington on the 4 May.
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