Useless Mint: Useless Mint
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Nottingham 4 piece, Useless Mint, have launched their self-titled debut album with a launch celebration set for Friday twenty first March
It’s all the time fascinating when an album involves you by the use of suggestion reasonably than through a random electronic mail chain you’ve been added to by one of many many can be ‘PR’ firms which might be on the market, on this event it was Nervous Twitch’s Erin who prompt I give it a hear…
I used to be conscious of the Nottinghamshire 4 piece earlier than Erin’s suggestion, having seen the title as assist for Louder Than Battle favourites The Filth (hi there Jack and Sachiko) and Determined Journalist, and as a part of the road up for this 12 months’s Half Time Punks occasion in Leeds however shamefully hadn’t checked them out.
So who’re Useless Mint? The band shaped in 2023 and are made up of Amy (Bass and Vocals), Tom (Guitar), Alex (Guitar and Backing Vocals) and Tim (Drums). All 4 had beforehand been in different native bands akin to Bus Cease Madonna’s, Gray Hairs, and Witches Mark, and fortuitously all discovered themselves at a free finish and obtainable to type Useless Mint.
The quartet describe their music as ‘Heavy Psychedelic Storage Grunge’ which just about nails it however having stated that, in the event that they don’t know what they sound like then there’s no hope for any of us! What I beloved about this album from the off is the rawness. I don’t know if it was, nevertheless it sounds prefer it’s been recorded stay in a observe room, virtually as a jam with the instrumentation having an area to breathe.
While there are solely 9 tracks on the album, the entire thing finished and dusted in simply 27 minutes, it’s a cohesive piece that takes you on a journey which can flash between your ears from the opening monitor Songlines, the longest at 5:29 by way of to the attractive instrumental nearer/coda of Bulwell Bogs. In between you get the magnificently pushed Rewind The Tape, which appears like a cowbell is being overwhelmed at time inside an inch of its life, Dreamers which arguably sees Ian Kilmister’s spirit pay a go to to session and Trip It Out, an instance of a band firing on all cylinders and being on the high of their sport.
This debut launch from Useless Mint is among the most constant albums I’ve heard for a while and should you like your music loud, that is one you’ll wish to flip as much as 11.
Catch Useless Mint stay on the official album launch at Tough Commerce Nottingham on
Friday 21 March at 6:00 pm. Tickets obtainable right here
The band are on Fb and Instagram
All phrases by Iain Key. See his writer profile right here or discover him on Bluesky
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