Our single of the week (29th May 2009)
...according to our Brian on Thu 28 May, 2009.
Mentalist alert.....!!!! Mildred & The Mice are a 4 piece adopted by cuddly ol' Uncle Jack White of little known Detroit grime quintet The White Strikes. They have a ltd 7" single on his cute Third Man imprint. 'I Like My Mice (Dead)' and it's a right silly, fabulously nihilistic lo-fi racket. Scratchy garage sludge with a completely demented woman yelling furiously into an already heavily oppressed microphone. It's as punk as you can get (of the Childish variety) and is a paen to viciously detaching our miniature furry friends from their mortal coil. Over on the flip is an unhinged, doomy distort-a-thon called 'Spider Bite' which sounds like early Black Sabbath in a blender topped with the aforementioned lyric spewing basket case screaming the studio/burned out dustbin down with all the glee of a hell bent dominitrax wreaking vengeance on all who've ever so much "looked at her pint funny". Reckon this babe smokes fireworks she's so nuts. Utterly essential.First release via Forte on the Third Man Records label, see news for more info, but we're pretty excited about this, has to be said. The mysterious goth milquetoast mildred appeared before jack white at a hardware store In kentucky. She had no demo to give, nor guitar with her, so instead she sang her song I like my mice (dead) at the top of her lungs in front of several hardware store customers before quickly walking out Of the store in shy earnest. Mr. white immediately followed her to the sidewalk and signed her to a third man single contract. She hails from the mammoth cave area, but hasnt given the staff an age, or current address! (dont worry well be holding her royalty checks here for her.) In fact her mother dropped her off at third man studio for the single session and waited patiently In a winnebago outside the studio until mildred was done recording. Mildred showed up with a very Cool gretsch princess guitar but called it a gitch. Her band the mice were even Less forth coming than she was, asking only for a copy of the record when it was done. Luckily We were able to snap a few shots of them at the third man headquarters before they headed back to kentucky. The two songs available now are nothing short of remarkable, and were recorded live to 8 track in one take. Jack white has given this recording the special third man catalog number of #003 stating; this is exactly the kind of record we want to put out.
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