Born ten years ago now but not at all changed in attitude, Fightmilk offer a free-range punk-pop, which you could imagine being played in some London basement, or in a old man pub in front of a small clientele, regardless of the lack of support.
Not far from the energy of I Love Your Lifestyle, smoothed by the more caressing timbre of frontwoman Lily Rae, reminiscent of Rainer Maria's Caithlin De Marrais, Fightmilk find a measure in channeling this energy that wasn't theirs before.
Thus they manage to set exciting progressions such as “Banger #7”, culminating in the emo anthem I don't cry as much as I used toor unmissable sarcastic tirades like “Summer Bodies” or “My Best Me”, without disdaining a “straightforward” punk-pop piece like “Eating For Two” or “Yearning And Pining”. Although perhaps the best of the album comes in the sticky chorus coda of “Canines.”
An album from which it is objectively difficult to ask for more and which represents in its small way a point of arrival for the London band, who clearly perceive themselves as having been born almost by chance but who are perhaps discovering something more serious than what their same members expected.
12/18/2024
Antonio Santini for SANREMO.FM
