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: Holy Milk
Based: South London
Listen: ‘Born and Die’
Similar to: Warpaint, hibernation.

Few opening statements come as cutting and arresting as Holy Milk’s ‘You are born and then you die.’

But that’s how New Cross’ Holy Milk work; this is the currency they deal in. Simple statements that might come off as one-dimensional on paper positively glow on record. They encompass everything and nothing all at once.

A lot of the magic comes from Lucinda John-Duarte, her ability to bend notes and reach end-points through casual detours. If there’s simplicity with her statements like ‘We drink to get drunk’, she balances grand declarations up against a stirring, ever-shifting backdrop. The Warpaint comparisons don’t so much creep in as stampede into the foreground during ‘Born and Die’, a song that features on a recent NX Records collection of exciting bands in the South London area. Goldsmiths students, Holy Milk showcase their arty side without alienating. They shun simplicity but they don’t do so for the sake of it. They prove that, even though birth and death are the ultimate things that define us, there’s so much more to explore within those two landmarks.



Holy Milk play London’s Old Blue Last tonight, 2nd December.