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Singles: “8th Deadly Sin” “Big I Am”
Miki Berenyi Trio have released “Big I Am”, the latest single from their forthcoming debut album Tripla due out April 4 via Bella Union. Lacing turbulent rhythms and crunchy guitar with industrial electronic beats that command you to the dancefloor, the song skewers the macho aggression unleashed by social media types such as Andrew Tate: “Throws his weight around, living a lie / Empty victory, stereotype, cliché masculine.” Miki Berenyi shares: “I've witnessed 50+ years of the trends in masculinity and frankly, nothing much changes – as ever, there are good men and there are shit men, and there are boys who can be misguided but easily mature into the best of their sex. But this latest incarnation of 'winning' the sex war is a laughably infantile and wilfully regressive new low.” The accompanying video was filmed at the Consortium Museum (Contemporary Art Center) in Dijon, France, in one of the Isabella Ducrot “Profusione” exhibition rooms, by director Sébastien Faits-Divers.
Watch / Share: “Big I Am”
Miki Berenyi Trio, or MB3 for short, is named after its lead singer – a direct way to convey the presence of the former singer/co-guitarist of Lush, and one of the most instantly recognisable faces of the ‘90s - but the songwriting is entirely a three-way collaboration, as the album title describes: acknowledging the mother tongue of Miki’s father, Tripla is Hungarian for ‘triple’. Already earning acclaim for the project from Stereogum, Under The Radar, SPIN, BrooklynVegan, FLOOD and more, it is a landmark record for its three creators: Miki Berenyi, KJ ‘Moose’ McKillop and Oliver Cherer. The album’s richly layered, imaginative and uniquely slanted strain of dream pop is an often euphoric and sometimes melancholic mix of guitars and electronica, fronted by Miki’s instantly recognisable vocal, overlaid with an often profound and sometimes abrasive or yearning view of the world.
Tripla is completed by a superb mix by Paul Gregory (of Bella Union labelmates Lanterns On The Lake) and beautiful artwork by Chris Bigg – who designed the sleeves for Piroshka and contributed to all of Lush’s sleeves – incorporating photography from Martin Andersen. But for all the album’s heightened and sophisticated sound, MB3 have gone back to basics, not only recording at home but driving a car packed with their gear, loading in and out of venues themselves. “There is something very ‘grass roots’ about what we’re doing,” says Miki. “There’s no point following the ‘announce the album, then tour, then record the next album’ route – we just want to wring as much enjoyment out of this as we can, and hope that it resonates somewhere!”
Miki Berenyi Trio have announced a number of upcoming live dates including Rough Trade instore performances for the album launch in April followed by a European tour and a UK tour in May. All dates are listed here.
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