Totally Mild Profile“Hang me by my head/I’m already dead,” Elizabeth Mitchel begins this record, the first from Melbourne’s Totally Mild, her voice beautiful and effortless, with shards of sad surf guitar cutting through the background, effectively letting us know that for a band with a joke name their music is dead serious.
The rich but sparing harmonies, gauzy synth and full production gives this record a Geoffrey O’Conner-style gloss but without the louche and unsavoury undercurrents. These guys are looking sadness dead-on and delivering hazily perfect downbeat pop songs, sweet swooning pain you’ll want more and more of.
