Fightmilk Announce New Album ‘No Souvenirs’ Released 15th November 2024 via Fika Recordings + INH Records

Acclaimed indie foursome, Fightmilk, are today delighted to announce their long-awaited third album, titled No Souvenirs.

A riotous combination of riffage, pop hooks, angst, heartfelt emotions, wit, and wisdom crashed out with infectious, gleeful abandon, the new album will finally escape the studio on 15th November 2024 via Fika Recordings (Mammoth Penguins, Fortitude Valley) and new kids on the block INH Records.

Three years in the making, the 12-track album is preceded by its second single and title track ‘No Souvenirs’, released 20th August 2024, with the album also available to pre-order now.

A poignant, stirring and personal paean to coping with losing a loved one, the new single is a big-hearted quasi-epic, deftly navigating the fine line between remembering and moving on.

Commenting on the new track, vocalist Lily says: “This is a song about surviving a loved one’s death and what you do with the leftovers. In 2013 a close friend of mine died and it messed me up for a really long time. It took ten years to write about it in a way that felt right, because I kept trying to articulate him and couldn't get it down on paper.”

“So, instead, this song is about that balancing act of honouring a life whilst also trying to hold onto little bits of it. I kept everything—notes, letters, texts, even a packet of instant flan mix he sent me once as a weird joke—but at the back of my mind is the knowledge that it's just stuff that I've given power to. Souvenirs lose their meaning over time. The memory of him is really the only important thing.”

“It's a sad song about death but I wanted it to sound huge and final, like I'm putting something to bed.”

“It might be the best song we’ve ever written,” adds guitarist Alex, observing, “It’s definitely Lily’s best set of lyrics. The second we finished it, there was no question the album was going to be built with that song at its foundation.”

Following swiftly on from the success of the album’s well-received first single ‘Summer Bodies’, Fightmilk are increasing the tempo as they build toward the album release which is to be marked with a headline show at London’s Paper Dress Vintage on 15th November 2024 with a full tour to follow.

Having relished in the visceral pleasure of playing together and live on stage again post-Covid, the band’s new sound reflects that joy, the abandonment in doing what you love and the catharsis of doing so. Moving on with their third album and embarking on a more intuitive and collaborative style of writing, the band have embraced their influences and gone with their instincts.

The new single demonstrates how well they have achieved those ambitions, and how making a screaming racket in front of people can be both elemental and fun, sensitive and muscular within the span of moments.

“As a songwriter, I’ve disciplined myself to keep to ‘first thought best thought’ more, and not overwork lyrics and melodies into the ground,” says Lily of the new approach. “We’re more secure in keeping weird shit in and not adding or cutting things because it feels like we’re supposed to.”

With international acclaim from the likes of STEREOGUM, Kerrang! Magazine, The Quietus, DIY Magazine, Brooklyn Vegan and The Line Of Best Fit already under their belts, and having sold out headline gigs across the UK, in addition to sharing stages with bands such as Art Brut, Yawners and Problem Patterns, Fightmilk look set to build on their reputation as one of the DIY scene’s best loved bands in the run-up to their much-anticipated third album.

New album ‘No Souvenirs’ will be released 15th November 2024 via Fika Recordings/INH Records

Live Dates:

• 15.11.24 - London - Paper Dress Vintage (album release show)
• 16.11.24 - Cambridge - Indie Pop All Dayer