Strawberry Milk made pop punk subversively sticky-sweet in ‘Katherine the Great’

Strawberry Milk reimagined pop punk through a quaint and quirky lens with their latest single Katherine the Great; a track that tastes like someone turned Neutral Milk Hotel’s lo-fi earnestness into a strawberry shake and laced it with sticky-sweet stridency. There’s a strange sense of reverence and rebellion braided through the sound; nothing in Katherine the Great feels untouched by irony or heart. It’s the sound of a band that understands how to turn cutesy capriciousness into something meaningful without ever losing its edge. Who would expect a rising college rock outfit, already cementing their name across the New Jersey circuit, to pen a compassionate, surrealist track through the imagined soul of a royal icon? Yet, from the tender inflexions of vulnerability in the vocals to the restrained euphony of the instrumentals, which only crescendo into a woozy alt-indie-rock swell, the single thrives in that tension between eccentricity and emotional sincerity. It’s as theatrical as it is disarmingly intimate. Since forming in Princeton in 2022, Strawberry Milk have become local favourites for good reason. Their sound dips into the prog-psychedelic legacies of Genesis and Rush, pulls threads from the rhythmic wanderlust of Sting and Dave Matthews Band, and then dusts […] The post Strawberry Milk made pop punk subversively sticky-sweet in ‘Katherine the Great’ appeared first on A&R Factory.

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Strawberry Milk reimagined pop punk through a quaint and quirky lens with their latest single Katherine the Great; a track that tastes like someone turned Neutral Milk Hotel’s lo-fi earnestness into a strawberry shake and laced it with sticky-sweet stridency. There’s a strange sense of reverence and rebellion braided through the sound; nothing in Katherine the Great feels untouched by irony or heart. It’s the sound of a band that understands how to turn cutesy capriciousness into something meaningful without ever losing its edge. Who would expect a rising college rock outfit, already cementing their name across the New Jersey circuit, to pen a compassionate, surrealist track through the imagined soul of a royal icon? Yet, from the tender inflexions of vulnerability in the vocals to the restrained euphony of the instrumentals, which only crescendo into a woozy alt-indie-rock swell, the single thrives in that tension between eccentricity and emotional sincerity. It’s as theatrical as it is disarmingly intimate. Since forming in Princeton in 2022, Strawberry Milk have become local favourites for good reason. Their sound dips into the prog-psychedelic legacies of Genesis and Rush, pulls threads from the rhythmic wanderlust of Sting and Dave Matthews Band, and then dusts […]

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