After going through several festivals this summer – in Spain they found themselves at the Mallorca Live Festival, milky luck he locked himself in the studio to finish shaping his new songs. The result is Living in the mistan album that will be released in just a few months: June 9, 2023 and has a super danceable song of the same name as its cover letter.
In a world where artists continue to release singles only to release records that feel more like compilations than original albums, The German duo assert their point of view in the industry with the release of his new LP. Perhaps they have a more naive vision, but after all, it’s their way of introducing themselves to a loyal following and with which they hope to find new followers along the way.
At least that’s how they put it through the statement announcing their upcoming album: “The best thing we’ve done for ourselves artistically has been keep a real sense of naivety. Maybe it’s because we met so young, but playing music together is like playing. Whatever we do, we try to let childlike intuition, serendipity and a sense of discovery guide us.”
In this line, the song Living in a haze (“living in a mist”) is pure hedonism, it’s an iron will to continue exploring sounds, to let go and surrender to the pleasure of the dance floor. In fact, the chorus says it pretty clearly: “I should dance away from the pain,” Rehbein intones over and over, “I wish I was a disco boy.”
Milky Chance, creators of pop sounds. / Anthony Molina. Image courtesy of Be the One Media
This fourth studio album contains songs of all kinds and it is precisely what defines the group today. As they hate repeating themselves, they jump from one style to another with astonishing ease and it is precisely this trick that makes them unclassifiable. This album was recorded at the Jazzanova recording studios in Berlin with a wide range of collaborators – in the DECCO production, Jonas Holle, Tobias Kuhn, Dennis Neuer, and guests such as Malian Fatoumata Diawara and Canadian Charlotte Cardin.
Much more than underground folk pop
Although since its creation in 2012 they present themselves as a folk pop duo, the truth is that their artistic paths have mutated and adapted to an increasingly changing music industry. Milky Chance retains its essence in the lyrics, but they never hesitated to temporarily put aside the folk pop that characterized them to embrace pop songs and any other style that allows them to express what they feel, be it dance, electronics, deep house. ..
If we look back, among his achievements we can find the successes that added his first two albums, Sad necessary y Blossom. But for this duo, things started rolling when Stolen dance it became a worldwide phenomenon in 2013, partly thanks to the support of BBC Radio 1. Today, this song has 860 million views on YouTube.
moon spirit It would be his third studio album, released in 2019, while later his travel bands, inspired by his travels, official collections of remixes, demos and covers that were originally part of the soundtrack to his viral series Road Tripping Radio.
An eco-responsible group
Knowing that the environment is one of the greatest challenges of our time, the German duo have been involved in meaningful actions in the fight against climate change for some time. From their position, Milky Chance wanted to promote ecological sustainability through their initiative milky changewho plants trees to offset the carbon footprint of touring.