Watch the video for Hot Milk’s new single 90 Seconds To Midnight – starring Frank Skinner! – taken from their highly-anticipated second album Corporation P.O.P.
Huge Hot Milk news! The band have announced their second album Corporation P.O.P, and dropped a brand-new single entitled 90 Seconds To Midnight.
The band will be releasing the follow-up to their breakout debut A CALL TO THE VOID on June 27 via Music For Nations, with Jim Shaw describing the record as “a flurry of thoughts, feelings, ramblings from the afters and questions about where we’re at right now in England, the further western world and emotionally.
“It is an entry from the perspective of us lot who live a dichotomy of months in faraway lands and then experience the sudden grounding of returning home to Salford. It’s hard not to compare, contrast and try to understand.
“P.O.P = Payment of Pain. We all must live with the burden of modernity and this pain has been commodified; we all must pay. Corporation pop itself is a term Han’s [Mee, vocalist/guitarist] grandad used to refer to the water supply, something that runs throughout all our homes, just as current events run through us all.”
Get your first taste of all of that with 90 Seconds To Midnight, with an accompanying video starring none other than Frank Skinner.
“The Doomsday Clock is nearing midnight and this frantic song sets the mood for the oncoming nuclear winter,” explains Han. “We wanted to punch you proper in the face with this, this balls-to-the-wall little riffy boy comes bounding at you relentlessly.
“Lyrically we took inspiration from 17th century philosopher Rousseau and the poet John Betjemen with his poem Slough. Rousseau set out that humanity would never be free as we create our own shackles. In this case, we’ve created our own demise. Whereas Betjemen’s poem takes this notion of demise and laughs at it, inviting the nukes in ‘come friendly bombs’… Let’s set the gaff on fire and start again.”
Watch the video now:
Plus, catch them live on their newly-announced tour:
Hot Milk UK spring headline tour 2025
April
4 Edinburgh La Belle Angele
6 Sheffield Corporation
7 Norwich Waterfront
9 Oxford O2 Academy2
10 Cardiff Globe
11 Brighton Patterns
The band play Slam Dunk Festival in May – get your tickets now.
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