Sudden Voices Milk and Honey

Milk and Honey was one of the first Sudden Voices releases and it laid down a template for a lot of subsequent work. A shuffling groove propels the song through a rich, analogue psychedelia that rises and falls in distinct swells. It is a song about regretting wasted time, a feeling that only gets worse as you get older - i.e. "all those longer days and shorter years".

The accompanying video explores animated graphics inspired by post-war designers such as Josef Müller-Brockmann, Armin Hofmann, and Saul Bass. The video has a vintage, analogue feel to it, with the VHS glitching creating the sense of something that has been languishing in a vault for decades.

Reviews

“A bold experimental spirit, mixing kraut with jazz, and art rock with new wave & post punk. What if Can jammed in the same studio with This Heat & Laughing Stock-era Talk Talk; Well, this might have been their bastard child!”

Last Day Deaf

“Milk and Honey's lush, analog psychedelia fluctuates in peculiar surges, and is driven by a moving groove, coming across as a refined combination between contemporary jazz and krautrock sounds.”

Destroy//Exist

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