drowning in the shining sea

hello!! "orchids (garden scene)", the one and only single for our debut album "plan for the way out", is out NOW!! this album has been in the works for an incredibly long time and i think it turned out pretty damn good. if you've been to any of our shows before, you've heard this song. and presumably, you've had it stuck in your head since then. but if not, you have one week to catch up, as the record is due out on october 29th! i'll have more to say then, so keep in touch :-)

leave a message at the tone
milo

out?

twice is nice but three times is just right

it's true!

we're playing another show on the 12th at the rock n roll house in logan square (dm us on instagram or email us for the address!) with trees will return, rural king and aaron thomas. 10 bucks suggested donation, all ages, house show, door at 8pm and we go on at 8:30, everybody wins. unfortunately our dear dylan can't make it so our buddy gabe from mail. is learning our set for the night like a champ. if you're looking for an event to witness before you retire to your lounge in a silken robe to listen to morrissey records, you couldn't find a better option.

armageddon come armageddon come
milo

out past the electric lines

our second ever, but first show in our own city will be at the color club on march 30th with slug rug and autofill! it'll be dylan's first show with us and we'll be playing some stuff heretofore unheard by the general public. 10 bucks, all ages, doors are at 7:30pm and we're on at 8, so don't be late! come see us and talk to us and feel the inexplicable breeze through your hair and wonder, "just where exactly is that breeze coming from? i'm indoors!" and we will stare back, unspeaking and unflinching, but answering nonetheless.

nonetheless
milo

tornado country beat allen lumber into mud ponds

what's popping!

it's been a long time since i posted anything here, but that doesn't mean we haven't been busy! two big ones: we got our own practice space at the start of this month. it's more than paid for itself already and it feels great to work in there. as a result, we also started recording the album for real for real this time! it's coming together pretty great despite a couple setbacks (the other night, i simultenously fried my recording interface and my favorite overdrive pedal. some really impressive production strategies happening), and i'm feeling excited about it. the drum tracks sound INCREDIBLE. here's a kind of crappy video showing the space off:



second, we now have the honorable dylan clancy playing bass! he's so great and the songs are sounding better than ever. i don't know if he knows this website exists yet, so i get to gush over it in secret. really really cool, funny dude and an insanely fast learning bass player. salutations to nathan mcmurray for playing with us in milwaukee and for writing a couple slick lines that are shaping up to be featured on the album.

the plan for the next couple months is to keep on recording the album, practice a ton, and get as many shows under our belt as we can. there's a few things relating to that last one in the works.... anyways.

end transmission
milo

one dollar eighty nine at stewart's and a few minutes later

hello! we are back home from the milwaukee show on saturday. we took the amtrak there and milled around milwaukee a bit before the show, and i filmed a lot of it and edited into a video, here.



the show itself went great! we played pretty well except for one of my guitar strings exploding during the first song, but it didn't matter because luke from mail graciously lent me his guitar and it imbued me with psychic rock and roll powers. people moshed! and then they moshed so hard during mail there were casualties! we sold some cds! pretty cool. it was also vampire themed, apparently? nobody told us though...

it was the best possible first show. i am beyond excited to keep playing shows with this band. thank you everyone who came and thank you to everyone yet to come. like ebenezer scrooge at 12am on christmas night.

god bless us everyone
milo

milwaukee sky rocket

our first show ever will be at discastle in milwaukee on november 23rd! we are coming up from chicago with our friends (and musical heroes) mail. to play with bad roommate, blind hill, and oh well ok. if you're a milwaukeean you should come as there is no significant commuting investment, and if you're a chicagoan you should brave the amtrack trip with us because it will be AWESOME! there's really no excuse not to come. 10 bucks, doors at 6pm, music at 7. to get the address you can either dm us on instagram, or if you're really cool and you read this website you can email us at makelikemarigold@gmail.com. we will also likely have lucky stars cds for sale!

see you there
milo