Hot Milk is introducing themselves as a force to be reckoned with on their first-ever full-length album, A Call To The Void. Having released EPs and singles since 2019, the dark-pop duo is taking risks on their 11-track collection of songs, melding their signature sound with intimate lyrics unlike ever before.
In an interview with Apple Music, singer Han Mee explains the array of emotions she faced while making the record. In the end, creating each song became a cathartic escape for Hot Milk to think, feel, and release the pressure they faced during the process.
“I had a breakdown,” she says. “It was the pressure of it, like ‘I want it to be good, and I don’t know if I can do it. It became an actual diary entry, it became us and what we were going through at that time. That’s what music should be. Sometimes you write just to make yourself better.”
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Last week, the band released an official music video for “Breathing Underwater,” the ninth track on A Call To The Void. Here, the album’s themes of self-doubt and anxiety are in the spotlight both visually and lyrically. As Han Mee sings “I open my mouth but the words don’t come out/And the deepest blue sinks in me so low,” rain pours on each of the band members to symbolize the flooding of feelings that the song is about. Mental health is an important topic for Hot Milk, and this video is a powerful piece of imagery that resonates with listeners who have felt the same.
This fall, Hot Milk is going on a European tour to support their new record. From this weekend’s Reading Festival to their date at Manchester Academy, the band will surely have a stacked lineup of shows in the coming months. Check out their tour dates below and stream their new record here.
Tour Dates:
- Aug. 27—Reading, United Kingdom @ Reading Festival 2023
- Nov. 10—Tilburg, Netherlands @ Hall Of Fame
- Nov. 12—Hamburg, Germany @ Headcrash
- Nov. 13—Berlin, Germany @ Badehaus Berlin
- Nov. 15—Koln, Germany @ MTC Club
- Nov. 16—Paris, France @ Les Etoiles
- Nov. 18—Glasgow, United Kingdom @ SWG3
- Nov. 19—Nottingham, United Kingdom @ Rescue Rooms
- Nov. 21—Bristol, United Kingdom @ Trinity Centre
- Nov. 22—London, United Kingdom @ O2 Forum Kentish Town
- Nov. 24—Birmingham, United Kingdom @ O2 Institute2 Birmingham
- Nov. 25—Manchester, United Kingdom @ Manchester Academy
- June 22, 2024—East London, United Kingdom @ London Stadium
- June 27, 2024—Birmingham, United Kingdom @ Villa Park
