“Listen mate, it’s a social commentary, calm down…but it’s kinda true,” reassures vocalist Han Mee halfway through ‘Insubordinate Ingerland’, the second track on Hot Milk’s latest studio album. Her line is the perfect summary for where ‘Corporation Pop’ is coming from. We all know that “Hot Milk is an emotion”, to quote their t-shirts, but that undefined emotion now is bubbling towards anger. It’s more than that though; we know that the Mancunians have a reputation for politically biting lyrics, but the layer of blunt honesty and courage, the “kinda true”, side to their music, is amped up along with their ideological views. If you want your pop punk as assertive and venomous as a cobra at a demonstration, then ‘Corporation Pop’ is going to light your fire.
The early single drops are your primer to Hot Milk’s new direction. ‘Insubordinate Ingerland’ is a riotous critique, dominated by a catchy synth line and a hell of a lot of deceptively cute vocals from Mee that only thinly…
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