Acclaimed indie foursome, Fightmilk announce their long-awaited third album. Entitled No Souvenirs, it’s a riotous combination of riffage, pop hooks, angst, heartfelt emotions, wit and wisdom crashed out with infectious, gleeful abandon, and will finally escape the studio on November 15.
Three years in the making, the 12-track album is preceded by its second single and title track ‘No Souvenirs’. A poignant, stirring and personal paean to coping with losing a loved one, the new single is a big-hearted quasi-epic, deftly navigating the fine line between remembering and moving on.
Vocalist Lily says: “This is a song about surviving a loved one’s death and what you do with the leftovers. In 2013 a close friend of mine died and it messed me up for a really long time. It took ten years to write about it in a way that felt right, because I kept trying to articulate him and couldn’t get it down on paper.
“So instead this song is about that balancing act of honouring a life whilst also trying to hold onto little bits of it. I kept everything – notes, letters, texts, even a packet of instant flan mix he sent me once as a weird joke – but at the back of my mind is the knowledge that it’s just stuff that I’ve given power. Souvenirs lose their meaning over time. The memory of him is really the only important thing.
“It’s a sad song about death but I wanted it to sound huge and final, like I’m putting something to bed.”
Guitarist Alex observed: “It might be the best song we’ve ever written. It’s definitely Lily’s best set of lyrics. The second we finished it, there was no question the album was going to be built with that song at its foundation.”
No Souvenirs:
- Summer Bodies
- That Thing You Did
- Canines
- Back From Tour
- Yearning and Pining
- Banger #7
- No Souvenirs
- Inferno
- My Best Me
- Eating For Two
- Paddling Pool
- 30
