Milo Korbenski

Rising, enigmatic Brighton songwriter Milo Korbenski delivers his debut album proper, 'When You Gonna Tell ‘Em the Truth, Aaron?' - a stunning collection of haunted, heavy, unique art-dream-indie-pop earworms.

Opener “Rooster” leans into the darkness, a fairy wearing boots. It marries a snarling, stomping riff with Milo’s uncanny perfection of melodic catchiness, dressing bleak instrumentation in shimmering, silken, pop mastery to last in the memory well beyond the three minutes of its duration. The track’s head-nodding, relentless rhythmic drive combines with searing lead guitar to propel its mercurial vocal delivery into glorious singalong bliss. “I was trying to make a very friendly metal album,” Milo reveals. Across the album, hooks spring up with colour and - shining through a newfound love of gritty overdrive and dark themes - true joy. Key single “Booksmart Hunny” is a stunning example of this deft ability to weave the dreamily evocative and subtly melancholic with genuine riffs and a relentless tempo. Its chorus hits like an arena-filler, but retains the spectral, rarefied magic that makes Milo’s music so singular. “It’s a record of people who are stuck in a kind of spiritual void and don’t want to change. They become a sort of ghoul or phantom in their own reality,” we are told.