Expected Release 24th April 2026

Mildred is a band from Oakland, CA of four equal parts. They don’t have a lead singer, no one person writes the songs. The songs that make up their debut album Fenceline come together as a group with their genesis sprouting from any one of their members each time. This isn’t a case of Henry (vocals, guitar), Jack (vocals, guitar), Matt (vocals, bass, woodwinds) or Will (drums, production) sauntering in and slapping their latest offering down on the table to be fleshed out as they see it in their mind though. Mildred have a quieter, sweeter process. The songs are often wrestled from the lead writer by the other three, a lyric might have been mumbled absentmindedly for a few days before one of the other three grabs at it, forcing the lead writer to focus on something great they had come up with without really noticing. If you ask any Mildred member what their favourite part of Fenceline is, it will never be something they wrote. If you pin them down and ask them what their favourite part of something they did write was, it will always be something somebody else added to it.

This is what makes Mildred - in many ways a classic four piece - so special. This wonderfully easy bond between four friends just hanging out and writing songs is so palpable it’s intoxicating. Summed up neatly by Clash Magazine saying, “imagine if Pavement went Americana and you’d be close”, Mildred make music that is pure and poetic, gently addictive and never overwrought. They describe the creation of the band as being born from “deciding that playing/talking about/thinking about music together is fun and something we want to structure our lives around as best we can”. Mildred is a vehicle for these four people to continue to spend time in each other’s company, encouraging whatever phrase one of them might have been humming to be explored as fully as possible, nurtured into something tangible. Most bands are formed so they can get out of whatever DIY space they start out playing in, Mildred was formed so they can spend more time there!

For recording, the band took a week off work and decamped to Luke Temple’s studio in Pasadena, having all been carried through the pandemic by his 2019 album Both-And. Thrilled by the prospect of a full week of just playing music together rather than squeezing in around work, they recorded live together in the room, the only way they know how.

Dinked Edition 393
● UPS Brown vinyl
● 8.5” x 8.5” signed & numbered poster of front cover painting
● Additional 8.5” x 8.5” poster with postcard, origami van, maze, horoscope embedded
● Bonus track download (QR code on poster)
● Limited pressing of 250