The acclaimed DIY, power-pop quartet Fightmilk return with an unmissable, crashing tsunami of cathartic anger as the band embrace a bold new direction with the single ‘Sounds Like A You Problem’. Released on Fika/INH Records, the song follows up on the critical and commercial success of their last album, 2024’s No Souvenirs, as the agitstrop-popsters look to the future by recording in a new studio with a new producer and have come back with a glorious, mean, muscular and feisty slice of pop fury.
“Sleeping on eggshells
I know too much
Behind your locked door
Man on the run”
“This is taken directly from my experience at the hands of a former partner. Whilst I’ve written about it in other songs, this is the first time I’ve addressed it this head-on,” says singer Lily Rae.
“It’s such a common experience for so many people, especially women, that I wanted it to feel recognisable and relatable to anyone who’s gone through the same thing. It’s terrifying and suffocating at the time, but then the aftermath is just anger and later pity. You spend the whole relationship wondering what you could do better and then once you’re free of it you realise the way someone treats you was never your fault, or your problem, at all.
“I didn’t intend for it to sound like Army of Me by Bjork and Plump by Hole crashing into each other on a motorway but that’s how it turned out and I’m not mad about it. Bob the Excellent Mastering Guy said it was ‘very In Utero’, so that’s nice too. A Big Angry Song!!!”
Guitarist Alex enthuses about how the band have embraced pushing themselves in a new direction.
“In ten years of being Fightmilk, we’ve got used to doing things a certain way, and as we were finishing No Souvenirs, we started thinking of it as the end of an era in some ways,” he says. “’Sounds Like A You Problem’ was the first new song we worked on after that album, so we figured it would be a good time to try something different.
“Working with a new producer in a new studio encouraged everyone out of their comfort zone on this song in one way or another. Without any backing vocals getting in the way, we probably all just decided to scream through our instruments instead. We went into Rich Mandell’s with no agenda, half-seriously throwing references around like PJ Harvey, The Geraldine Fibbers and, er, Limp Bizkit in an attempt to match the nervous scratchy energy of Lily’s initial demo, and we couldn’t be more proud of what he’s pulled out of us.
“When we started playing it live, Lily used to yell “I’m sorry” over the middle 8, and I’m glad she doesn’t anymore. This song is many things; apologetic isn’t one of them.”
