mildlife

Oozing onto the scene with their 2017 debut LP Phase, Mildlife have swiftly grown into one of Australia’s most acclaimed acts, carving out a niche wholly of their own, one that traverses jazz, dance and psychedelic music into a curiously singular, entirely entrancing and moveable amalgam greater than the sum of its individual parts.

‘Return to Centaurus’ marks the band’s first new material since the release of their lauded, ARIA Award-winning 2020 second studio album Automatic. Opening with droning synths and a wall of horizontal, Kraftwerk-esque vocoders, ‘Return to Centaurus’ evolves from psychedelic space rock into a gloriously hook-heavy acid funk meltdown over the course of its ten minute-long trip time. Luxuriating in loping, velvet-draped bass lines, sparkling, funk-laced guitar riffs and intricate, morphological percussion, it distils Mildlife’s unwavering adoration for the beguiling realms of 70’s psychedelic and cosmic sounds, owing as much to Sun Ra and Alice Coltrane as it does Ennio Morricone and Giorgio Moroder.

In the last 18 months, Mildlife have performed over 100 shows in 23 different countries, performing with the likes of Arctic Monkeys, Khruangbin, Parcels, Kamasi Washington & King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, and enamouring crowds with euphoric festival sets at Splendour in the Grass, Pitch Music & Arts Festival & Desert Daze. Mildlife now bring their most elevated live show yet back to stages around Australia.

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