Hot Milk sophomore album ‘Corporation P.O.P.’ is out today, with new single ‘Sympathy Symphony.’
“Collective pain, personal fear and it’s place in modernity is everything that is encapsulated in ‘Corporation P.O.P.’ The payment of pain we all must make in the world we currently live,” says Han Mee. “This album is essentially everything we see and are afraid of, from a macro sphere looking out to our twisted nervous system that takes the burden. An album that was captured fully Analogue to feel as raw and visceral as the subject matter at hand.”
The record is an extravagant, uncompromising assessment of the perilous world around us, examined through a sharp British lens that is both witty and universal. Kerrang! said, “Creative British acts embracing serious topics in a blaze of different sounds are to be cherished. Right now Hot Milk are coming to the boil.”
Having studied a politics degree, Han Mee has used that with ‘Corporation P.O.P.’ — where Hot Milk unleash the pent-up anger experienced en masse around the globe. “I’ve always felt like a bit of a white knight — it’s my duty to save the world somehow,” says Han. “I feel very, very impacted by the world’s issues, consistently. I wanted to be an MEP [Member of European Parliament], that was my dream.”
Despite its global outlook, ‘Corporation P.O.P.’ is an album that takes root in Manchester and Salford, exemplified by the band’s decision to shoot all of their videos in their hometown. “Newt Gingrich, who was a U.S. politician, once said ‘All politics is local,'” says Han. “I’m trying to look local and be involved locally so I can affect my world. This is how I survive, because the world can feel overwhelming.”
“Manchester is the best f’in city in the world,” she continues, getting somewhat emotional, having recently u-turned from a permanent move to L.A. when Manchester came calling back to her. “We started this band in Manchester, it’s intrinsic to me and who I am. It has to bleed into the art we create, because it helped me create it.”
Produced by the band’s own Jim Shaw, with Zach Jones and KJ Strock, you can sense Hot Milk’s killer instinct throughout the record, a result of the intensive writing process and recorded as live album, it offers the band at their heaviest with their raw, unapologetic lyrics which brim with unfiltered emotion.
Snapshotting the gloom of the present and unloading very real fears for the future, the sentiment behind ‘Corporation P.O.P.’ might feel locked inside a time capsule. But fast forward two decades, and time will surely prove why this record carries the hallmarks of something timeless.
Remaining Spring Tour Dates + Festivals:
June 30th — The Box (Supporting Green Day) — Luxembourg, LU
July 2nd — Ziggo Dome (Supporting Green Day) — Amsterdam, NL
July 9th — 2000trees Festival (Headline In The Forest) — Cheltenham, UK
July 26th & 27th — Warped Tour 2025 — Long Beach, CA
August 13th — Rolling Hall — Seoul, KR
August 16th — Summer Sonic — Tokyo, JP
August 17th— Summer Sonic — Osaka, JP
Fall U.S. Tour Dates And Festivals:
September 19th — Louder Than Life Festival — Lousiville, KY
September 21st — The Rave — Milwaukee, WI
September 23rd — Grog Shop — Cleveland, OH
September 24th — A&r Music Bar — Columbus, OH
September 26th — Space Ballroom — Hamden, CT
September 27th — Rec Room — Buffalo, NY
September 28th — Arden Gild Hall — Arden, DE
September 30th — White Eagle Hall — Jersey City, NJ
October 2nd — Aftershock Festival — Sacramento, CA
Hot Milk UK Headline Shows w/ support from Cassyette And Silly Goose:
November 17th — Swg3 — Glasgow, UK
November 19th — Roundhouse — London, UK
November 20th — O2 Institute — Birmingham, UK
November 22nd — O2 Victoria Warehouse — Manchester, UK