The Milk – No Interruptions
The Milk – No Interruptions (2015)
Directed by: Rick Burnell and Jo Wheatley
Sometimes it takes a few bumps to find the right direction; often it involves experience, guts and self-belief to trust yourself and venture from one to find another. The Milk are a band that believe with utter conviction that they’ve now found their way. Fuelled by a rediscovery of the music and artists that originally inspired their formation, the four walls of their studio were ablaze with a soundtrack of Bill Withers, Isaac Hayes and the Isley Brothers throughout the songwriting process. ‘No Interruptions’ was one of the first songs written for this new album.
“This song provided us with a tone, musical flavour and a lyrical yardstick to which all of the other tracks had to have in common. The song is about defiance and retribution, emotions that were common in the studio at that time.”
– Rick Nunn
The Bees’ Paul Butler, who proved his production mastery with Michael Kiwanuka’s Mercury Prize nominated debut, invited the band to record at Chale Abbey, a medieval barn on the Isle of Wight. Guided by Butler, the sessions here captured the genuine version of The Milk: the sounds and honesty of soul.
Eager to share their new songs, ‘Deliver Me’ was released as free download and limited 7” single in November 2014 – finding its way onto the playlists of BBC 6 Music’s Lauren Laverne, Huey Morgan and Gilles Peterson – while The Milk’s dedicated fans packed out Tufnell Park’s The Dome for the band’s triumphant live return. The band unveiled their new songs in full for the first time to an intimate sold out show at Hackney’s Oslo on 2nd July, ahead of a full UK tour this autumn.
