YOWL - Milksick (2023) [Hi-Res]

Like a lucid Shane MacGowan fronting a frazzled house band, Yowl are a South London based 5 piece of menacing-indie storytellers, swinging from intense proto-punk to swooning balladry. Their debut album Milksick is released on Clue Records / EMI North. Born from the grit and gristle of South London, the record is both a curdled, anxiety-riddled reaction and a bitter antidote to our times. Tearing through several iterations, birthing and destroying characters and concept-driven rabbit holes, the band liken Milksick's creation in Leeds' Nave Studios as something they "chipped away at, like a slab of ugly rock that became a handsome statue." The band returned to producer and grounding presence Alex Greaves, producer for BDRMM and Working Mens Club. Encapsulating the spirit of the record, the band say: "Milksick is a collection of outlandish cautionary tales, uneasy odes to imaginary characters and late night pedal-fuckery, all tied together by a thread of eco-anxiety and that mildly bitter, self-effacing outlook that has earned us our similarly disgruntled following."



Tracklist:
1.01 - YOWL - Virile Crocodile Sweat (2:53)
1.02 - YOWL - The Machine (3:28)
1.03 - YOWL - Donkey's Jawbone (2:21)
1.04 - YOWL - Positive Exit (4:42)
1.05 - YOWL - Canis (3:12)
1.06 - YOWL - The Farmer's Big Spade (4:05)
1.07 - YOWL - Weedkiller (3:22)
1.08 - YOWL - The Weatherman (3:05)
1.09 - YOWL - A. Wegener (4:31)
1.10 - YOWL - Idiot Daughters, Idiot Sons (3:23)
1.11 - YOWL - Billy's Birds (3:07)
1.12 - YOWL - A Birthday With David (3:30)