The Miki Berenyi Trio has unveiled new single “Doldrum Days”. “The lyric is about the spaces between places where interesting things can happen,” says Ollie. “The scenario is borrowed from Erskine Childers’ novel The Riddle of the Sands, but really it’s about being lost, stranded, unmotivated and bored, and what a potentially fertile or dangerous place that can be.”
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 recognizable faces of the ‘90s. However, the songwriting is entirely a three-way collaboration by Miki Berenyi, KJ ‘Moose’ McKillop and Oliver Cherer, as the album title highlights, while acknowledging the mother tongue of Miki’s father: Tripla is Hungarian for ‘triple’.
Miki Berenyi Trio released their debut album Tripla earlier this year to widespread international acclaim. Tripla’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 recognizable vocal, overlaid with an often profound and sometimes abrasive view of our age. But whether fearing the effects of macho aggression, the solipsism of social media and the race to environmental destruction, particularly for our children, or mourning lost loved-ones and middle-of-the-night anxiety, the shoegaze pioneers continue to imbue their politically charged legacy with upbeat optimism and a sense of humor.
