MILDRED MAUDE
Sleepover SONIC CATHEDRAL
7/10
Cornwall trio seek bliss in lengthy instrumentals
Named after drummer Louie Newlands’ grandmother, Mildred Maude win few prizes for complexity but plenty for mesmeric tenacity. This second album offers three guitar-led epics, their krautrock tendencies coloured by hypnagogic textures beloved of Sonic Youth and Slowdive, whose Simon Scott mastered the record. “Trevena”’s intensity repudiates its simplicity with 10 minutes of restrained tension swaddled in glide guitar, and “Elliott’s Floor”’s swathes of soaring distortion noisily recall Swervedriver’s. “Glenn Plays Moses”, meanwhile, doubles these tracks’ length, bending guitar strings amid a frenzy of feedback, but “Chemo Brain” takes just three minutes to refuel Daydream Nation’s “Silver Rocket”.