Album Review: Millie Manders & The Shut Up - "Telling Truths, Breaking Ties"
We're slightly late off the mark with this one as it came out late last year but Millie Manders & The Shut Up are one of those bands who seem to have been picking up a lot of mentions of late so we decided to give this a spin to see what all the fuss is about. The phrase "21st century punk" is one that's overused a bit and, for those with longer memories it may bring up unpleasant fratpunk-related memories but Telling Truths, Breaking Ties is definitely an album that merits the tag. The energy and anger of '77 is here but this is definitely a more modern take on the formula with the clean crisp production and use of Gold Blade style horns on several tracks showing a group trying to take the sound off to somewhere it hasn't really been regularly before. There's a nod to groups like the Skints on the spoken word likes of Bitter and the dubby Poor Man's Show but they're different enough to the likes of the above that you couldn't ever des...