Mildred Maude - SleepoverThree seemingly disparate characters from Cornwall Matt Ashdown (guitar), Lee Wade (bass) and Louie Newlands (drums) Mildred Maude are named after one of their grandmas and play an improvised noise that always seems to be teetering on the edge of chaos, but something incredibly beautiful at the same time, like a cross between Sonic Youth and Slowdive. It is utterly thrilling. Sleepover is their second album and bears the influence of Stereolab, Can,

From the crunching

‰ÛÏarguably the musical achievement of the 2010s so far‰۝ - Record Collector (5*)

is a colourful

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it's kind of accidental

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two drums and a bunch of effect pedals

Instrumentation expanded

She recorded quickly

The album is evenly divided between vocal tunes and instrumentals

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