Milky Wimpshake - One Good Use For My Heart (Fortuna Pop)
UK release date: 3 November 2008
C-86 was a landmark in British music and it has become a quick way to label certain kinds of bands. You get the feeling that Milky Wimpshake and singer Pete Dale would have killed to have been included on that particular compilation. Not least because they seem to be obsessed with ensuring they sound like fey indie types who never made it to 1987.
This is simply recorded and even more simply played indie. The guitars are the definition of jangling, and Dales' voice is so apathetic it can't be bothered to stay in tune. It kind of suits things as it happens so we can't be bothered to criticise it. (If You Want To Know The Time Ask A) Policeman is a fleetingly amusing distraction sounding not unlike early Half Man Half Biscuit, in amongst what is basically some pretty dire fare it's a welcome relief.
However if Television Personalities float your boat, then this is almost guaranteed to make you whoop with delight as the ramshackle self aware songs shuffle past like a tramp who's soiled himself.
Dale states in Milky Cliché that he'll "finish this song like I finish yer beer." I'm tempted to do something similar with this EP; finish it off quickly and head for the door.
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